PHN - Books by Paul Hemphill

Auburn alum Paul Hemphill, who was sports editor of the Plainsman when Auburn won the national championship in 1957, tells the story of the growth and development of a football powerhouse. Richly illustrated with 172 photographs, the book has a foreword written by Auburn alum Vince Dooley.

The latest book by Paul Hemphill covering the life of America's greatest country singer, the legendary Hank Williams!

This collection covers the spectrum of the athlete's life, from early dreams through the halcyon years with stunning portraits of a kid in the minor leagues, of Karl Wallenda walking the high wire, of Ty Cobb in retirement, of roller derby, dirt-track racing and fallen heroes lost when the lights go out.

A bittersweet novel of salvation and resurrection centering on Billy Ray Hunsinger, a/k/a “The Gunslinger” during his heyday as a small-college quarterback, who saves two lives at once when he comes across a teenaged black kid from Atlanta’s inner city.

Deep in the Alabama swamps, in a virtual lost colony called Little River, five white teenagers on a drunken spree torch a desolate black church built by freed slaves, sending them to prison and tearing a community apart.

Having sprung from running moonshine in the hills of southern Appalachia, stock-car racing comes of age to become the fastest growing sport in America. A lively chronicle of the 1996 Winston Cup series, starring Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon and their Bubbarazzi.

With Major League Baseball suffering from greed and labor troubles that would lead to the 1994 strike, a gritty little second baseman named Marty Malloy plugs away for $1,000 a month with the Durham Bulls, just happy to be there.

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, this is Hemphill's memoir of growing up and out in "Bombingham," "The Tragic City," during troubled times in the mid-Twentieth Century.

A novel with 70-year old Jake Hawkins at the wheel, his troubled middle-aged son riding shotgun, headed west in Jake's dilapidated rig with a load of surplus tires on one final run.

A "journey of self-discovery" the hard way. Estranged father and son hike the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail, battling the elements and each other all the way as they search for truth, understanding and a pair of dry socks.

A novel about a spirited clan from Sixkiller Gap in western North Carolina - Grand Ole Opry star Bluejay Clay, son Jaybird and grandson Robin - as they tangle with whiskey, Nashville bureaucrats and life itself during changing times.

A collection of incisive reports from all over: Vietnam, the South, San Francisco, an auditorium in the Midwest where Karl Wallenda walks the high wire. Fascinating characters like Fast Freddie the hit-and-run man, Boosting Betty the shoplifter, and the author Fred Exley.

Hemphill's celebrated first novel, filmed by HBO and recently reprinted twenty-three years later, a riotous comedy of life in minor league baseball involving Stud Cantrell, his girlfriend Dixie Lee Box, the virginal rookie Jamie Weeks, and a black slugger parading in Klan country as "José Louis Brown".

An eclectic collection of Hemphill's journalism that brought attention to him as a chronicler of the blue-collar South: truck drivers, country singers, stock-car racers, rodeo cowboys, evangelists, and politicians.

The autobiography of Ivan Allen Jr., the courageous mayor of Atlanta during the tumultuous Sixties. While many American cities were aflame, Allen's Atlanta set an example by facing the issues of civil rights head-on. This book is a classic and often quoted by scholars.

In his glittering literary debut, Hemphill captures the sights and sounds of country music just as it was breaking its regional binds to become a national phenomenon. Thirty years later, it remains the definitive book on the subject.

	This collection covers the spectrum of the athlete's life, from early dreams through the halcyon years with stunning portraits of a kid in the minor leagues, of Karl Wallenda walking the high wire, of Ty Cobb in retirement, of roller derby, dirt-track racing and fallen heroes lost when the lights go out.
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