King of Country

The unlikely rise, crashing fall, and attempted comeback of a gifted country singer who grew up worshiping Hank Williams.

Wayne Greenhaw is the 2006 recipent of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer, given annually at Monroeville's Alabama Writers' Symposium. In 2005, he received the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction, given annually by the University of Alabama's College of Communication. An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Greenhaw's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Reader's Digest, Music City News, and many others. He is the author of more than seventeen books, the most recent of which is The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow (co-authored with Donnie Williams). He divides his time between Montgomery, Alabama, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico