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Tim Hollis
Tim Hollis is one of those authors who began writing when he was a child and simply never stopped. Those early works took the form of children's fantasies along the lines of the Oz books; little did he dream that his eventual writing career would be in non-fiction instead.
His first professional experience came when he was hired as an editor, to polish and refine the works of other local writers, and he eventually found the time to complete his first book in 1990. This was a biography of one of Birmingham's best-loved TV personalities, Cousin Cliff: 40 Magical Years In Television, published by Campbell's Publishing in 1991. For the next several years he busied himself with articles and more editing, but got back into the full-length book business when the University Press of Mississippi published Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun in the spring of 1999.
Hollis completed his second University Press of Mississippi title in late 2001: Hi There, Boys And Girls: America's Local Children's TV Programs.
Hollis has several filing cabinets full of material for future nostalgia-oriented books. (The Author)
Bibliography:
Selling the Sunshine State
Vintage Birmingham Signs
Ain't That a
Knee-Slapper
Birmingham Broadcasting
Mouse Tracks : the Story of Walt Disney Records
Six Flags Over Georgia
Glass Bottom Boats and Mermaid Tails: Florida's Tourist Springs
Birmingham's Theater and Retail District
Cousin
Cliff
Dixie Before Disney
Florida's Miracle Strip
Hi There, Boys And Girls
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25 March 2009
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