Two Local Authors Named To Alabama Writers Hall Of Fame

The Stokes Center for Creative Writing recently announced that Sue Brannan Walker and Frye Gaillard were selected for the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Walker is a professor emerita and former chair and director of creative writing at the University of South Alabama (USA) and a two-term Alabama poet laureate. She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 2002 book Blood Must Bear Your Name. Gaillard is a retired USA professor and writer in residence. He is an award-winning author of more than 30 books, including A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost and The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle For Desegregation In Charlotte, North Carolina.