Marshall Frady
Marshall B. Frady | |
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Born | January 11, 1940 Emmy Award (1982) |
Marshall Bolton Frady (January 11, 1940 – March 9, 2004) was an American
His articles appeared in
Life and career
Frady was born in
In addition to his print work, Frady was also active as a television journalist, contributing to the
Wallace
The author of several books, Frady is best known for Wallace, his first.
Some commentators criticized Wallace as being an overly sympathetic portrait of the governor, but Wallace himself was angered by his portrayal and threatened to sue for
In 1997, Wallace was adapted into a television miniseries for
Other works
In 1971, Frady published Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage through the Middle East, which recounted his travels in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. In 1979, after four years of research, he published a biography of evangelist Billy Graham, Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness. Eighteen of his magazine articles were collected in book form as Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey in 1980. Later in life he published biographies of civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson (Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, 1996) and Martin Luther King Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr., 2001).[6]
Death and papers
Frady died of cancer on March 9, 2004, in Greenville, South Carolina. Jesse Jackson presided over his memorial service.[2] At the time of his death, Frady owed approximately $200,000 in taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, causing his papers to be seized and auctioned off by the agency. They sold to Emory University for $10,100.[3]
References
- ^ a b Marc Cooper (March 11, 1994). "Remembering Marshall Frady". The Nation. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Author Marshall Frady is dead at age 64". NBC News. Associated Press. March 9, 2004. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ a b c d Motoko Rich (October 8, 2008). "Putting a Modest Price on a Storied Literary Life". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Marshall Frady". Charlie Rose. PBS. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- ^ a b c Wolfgang Saxon (March 11, 2004). "Marshall Frady, 64, Journalist Who Wrote Wallace Biography". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Frady, Marshall (Bolton) 1940-". Contemporary Authors, New Revisions Series. January 1, 2004. Archived from the original on October 11, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2013 – via HighBeam Research.
- ^ "To Save Our Schools, To Save Our Children". Retrieved 2021-04-29.