Marshall Frady

Marshall Bolton Frady was an American journalist and author particularly known for his work on the AfricanAmerican civil rights movement in the American South. In 1968, he published Wallace, a controversial biography of George Wallace, later described by contemporary Marc Cooper as an instant classic. His articles appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Life and Harpers, and he contributed to the American Broadcasting Companys news series Close Up and Nightline.

Frady was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1940. His father was a minister in the Southern Baptist church. In 1963, Frady received a bachelors degree from Furman University, where he later joined the faculty as writer in residence. He began as a journalist at Newsweek, later moving to the Saturday Evening Post and contributing to Harpers and Life. Frady was married three times, to Susanne Barker , Gloria Mochel , and Gudrun Barbara Schunk, whom he married on May 14, 1975 and survived him. He had three children Katrina, Carson, and Shannon.

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