Billy Moore is a native of Florida but spent much of his youth on his grandparents’ farm near Opp, Alabama. He teaches history at South Walton High School and Okaloosa Walton Community College. He is a graduate of Chipola College, Mississippi State University, and Rice University, where he also studied novel writing and served as assistant football coach. Little Brother Real Snake is his second book for young people. His first, the widely praised regional bestseller, Cracker’s Mule, describes a boy’s coming of age on an Alabama farm during the time of the great polio epidemic of the 1950s. He and his wife, Dee, live in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
Billy Moore is a native of Florida but spent much of his youth on his grandparents’ farm near Opp, Alabama. He teaches history at South Walton High School and Okaloosa Walton Community College. He is a graduate of Chipola College, Mississippi State University, and Rice University, where he also studied novel writing and served as assistant football coach. Little Brother Real Snake is his second book for young people. His first, the widely praised regional bestseller, Cracker’s Mule, describes a boy’s coming of age on an Alabama farm during the time of the great polio epidemic of the 1950s. He and his wife, Dee, live in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.