Deals in facts. Biographer of Ernie Pyle, John Bartlow Martin, Richard Tregaskis, Malcolm Browne, and Robert Sherrod, among others. Bio about journalist Wallace H. Terry available October 2026: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826370150/wallace-terry/
Ray E. Boomhower
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I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”
Saul Bellow, born on this day in 1914
"The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart."
James Salter