Paul Hemphill: 6 books

A veteran journalist’s collection of sportswriting on the blue-collar South. Sport mirrors life. Or, in Paul Hemphill's opinion, “Sport is life.” The 15 pieces in this compelling collection are arranged along the timeline for an aspiring athlete's dream: “The Dawning,” with stories...

Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. "We're stuck down here being poor together" is how...

While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were confronted by the new influences and business realities of pop music. The demimonde of the traditional...

Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.

Here’s how to pay a whole lot less for college and find a college match for your high school student. Ignore college rankings. The stealth college planning strategies recommended by the author are not-so-typical and often humorous suggestions that are simple and easy to implement. Fast-reading...

Can reading about the Battle of Gettysburg improve your day? Your life? If you enjoy fast-paced story-telling that inspires self-discovery, here are over 200 life-lessons from 88 stories that are stimulating takeaways that reveal how character is defined, how your success can be achieved, and...