- Clyde Bolton Biographical Information
- Clyde Bolton grew up in several
different small towns in Georgia,
- Alabama, and South Carolina, and his upbringing is
reflected in his
- writing. Some of his novels, including Water Oaks, and Ivy,
are set
- in the 1950s in the fictional Georgia village of Hempstead,
which is
- patterned after Statham, a real town located between
Atlanta and Athens.
- Bolton is a veteran of 40 years in the newspaper business.
He recently
- retired from the Birmingham News, where he had been
employed since 1961.
- He has won numerous national
awards for his writing. Two of his stories
- were chosen the best in the U. S. among those dealing with
stock car racing.
- Bolton has written numerous books. His first, The Crimson
Tide, was published
- in 1972. Other non-fiction books by Bolton include War
Eagle, Unforgettable Days
- in Southern Football, Silver Britches, They Wore Crimson,
The Basketball Tide and
- Bolton's Best Stories of Auto Racing. Bolton now lives in
Trussville, Alabama, with
- his wife Sandra, in a beautiful house that she designed.
He is currently a member of the
- Trussville Public Library Board of Trustees.
