Curtis Wilkie

Curtis Wilkie (born September 20, 1940) is a retired newspaper reporter, college professor and historian of the American South. He is the author of numerous books including ''When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer'', and ''Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South''. Historian Douglas Brinkley wrote that, "Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie." Provided by Wikipedia