Wayne Flynt

Wayne Flynt is the author or co-author of fifteen books about Southern politics, religion, and culture. An internationally known scholar, he has lectured at Sichuan University in China; Oxford, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen’s and Sussex universities in the United Kingdom; at the Franklin Roosevelt Center in the Netherlands; and at the University of Vienna. Awards for his books include the Lillian Smith Prize for Non-fiction; three times recipient of the Alabama Library Association Award for Nonfiction; the C. Vann Woodward/John Hope Franklin Award by the Fellowship of Southern Writers; the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Award for Excellence in Writing; and the Alabama Governor’s Award for the Arts. A longtime personal friend of Harper Lee, he gave the eulogy at her funeral and later wrote the book My Friendship with Harper Lee (2017).