Marshall Frady

Birthday:

01/11/1940

Place of birth:

Augusta, Georgia, U.S.:

Biography:

Marshall Bolton Frady (January 11, 1940 – March 9, 2004) was an American Emmy Award-winning journalist and author particularly known for his work on the civil rights movement in the American South. In 1968, he published Wallace, a biography of George Wallace, later described by contemporary Marc Cooper as "an instant classic." In 1982, he won an Emmy Award for his work on a documentary about mercenaries, Soldiers of the Twilight.