Frye Gaillard

Frye Gaillard (born December 23, 1946) is an American historian and author.

Frye Gaillard was born in Mobile, Alabama, on December 23, 1946. His parents were lawyer and later judge Walter Frye Gaillard Sr., and Helen Amante Gaillard. Gaillard attended Vanderbilt University, graduating in 1968. During the 1960s Gaillard came into proximity with many of the most prominent political personalities of the decade. As a high school student in 1963, Gaillard witnessed the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, during King's Birmingham campaign against racial segregation. While at Vanderbilt he came into contact with Stokley Carmichael and Eldridge Cleaver, when the two Black Panthers were engaged to speak. Shortly after, in 1968, he invited Robert F. Kennedy to speak at Vanderbilt, 11 weeks prior to Kennedy's assassination.^[1][2]

Gaillard started his career at the Race Relations Reporter in Nashville as managing editor from 1970 to 1972, then moved to the Charlotte Observer as a writer, editor and columnist, while teaching nonfiction writing at Queens College, both until 1990. While with the Observer he won awards from the North Carolina Press Association for spot news, features and investigative reporting. In 2004 he moved back to Mobile. As an author he won the 1989 Gustavus Myers Award for The Dream Long Deferred, and in 2007 the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for Cradle of Freedom.^[1]

Gaillard's 2018 book A Hard Rain was inspired by David Halberstam's The Fifties, and documents the 1960s in part through Gaillard's experiences of the time. Gailllard has been author-in-residence at the University of South Alabama since 2007. He has written more than 25 books.^[2][3][4]

• Race, Rock and Religion: Profiles from a Southern Journalist, 1982
• The Catawba River, with Dot Jackson, 1983
• Becoming Truly Free: 300 Years of Black History in the Carolinas, with Richard Maschal and others, 1985
• The Unfinished Presidency: Essays on Jimmy Carter, 1986
• The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1988
• Vino de sandía: El espíritu de la música country , 1989
• El diario secreto de Mijaíl Gorbachov , 1990
• Voces del Sur: Perfiles y otras historias , 1991
• Kyle a 320 km/h: Una temporada espectacular en la dinastía Petty/NASCAR , con Kyle Petty, 1993
• Lecciones de la Gran Casa: El recorrido de una familia a través de la historia del Sur , con Nancy Gaillard, 1994
• Nuestra perspectiva: Fotografía documental de los hijos de Charlotte , con Rachel Gaillard, 1995
• Los 521 All-Stars , con Bryon Baldwin, 1999
• Si yo fuera carpintero: Veinte años de Hábitat para la Humanidad , 1996
• El corazón de Dixie: rebeldes, renegados y héroes del sur , 1996
• Carmel Country Club: Los primeros 50 años , 1997
• Voces del ático , 1997
• Mientras fluyan las aguas: los nativos americanos del sur y del este , con Carolyn Demerit y otros, 1998.
• Mobile y la costa este , con Nancy Gaillard, 2003
• Las guerras santas de Charlotte: La religión en una nueva ciudad del sur , 2005
• Cuna de la Libertad: Alabama y el movimiento que cambió Estados Unidos , 2006
• Profeta de las llanuras: Jimmy Carter y su legado , 2007
• En la senda de las tormentas: Bayou la Batre, Coden y la costa de Alabama , con Sheila Hagler y otros, 2008
• Con música y justicia para todos: Algunos sureños y sus pasiones , 2008
• La ruta de los derechos civiles de Alabama: una guía ilustrada a la cuna de la libertad , 2010
• Los libros que importaron: Memorias de un lector , 2012
• El edredón: Y la poesía de la música de Alabama , con Kathryn Scheldt, 2015
• Viaje a la naturaleza salvaje: guerra, memoria y las cartas de una familia sureña durante la Guerra Civil , con Steven Trout, 2015
• "Ve al sur hacia la libertad" , con Anne Kent Rush, 2016
• Una lluvia torrencial: Estados Unidos en la década de 1960, nuestra década de esperanza, posibilidad e inocencia perdida , 2018
• La esclava que llegó al Congreso , con Marti Rosner y otros, 2020