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Robert Inman

Novelist, screenwriter, and columnist Robert Inman is a native of Elba, Alabama, where he began his writing career in junior high school with his hometown weekly newspaper. He left a 31-year career in journalism in June 1996 to devote full time to writing.

Inman is the author of four novels, all published by Little, Brown, and Company: Home Fires Burning (1987), Old Dogs and Children (1991), Dairy Queen Days (1997) and Captain Saturday (2002). His first two novels received the "Outstanding Fiction Award" from the Alabama Library Association. Home Fires Burning was named one of the best books of 1987 by the Philadelphia Enquirer. All four novels remain in print.

Down Home Press published Coming Home: Life, Love and All Things Southern, a collection of his non-fiction work, in October 2000.

Inman has written screenplays for several motion pictures for television, two of which have been "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentations. His script for The Summer of Ben Tyler, a Hallmark presentation, won the Writers Guild of America Award as the best original television screenplay of 1997. His other Hallmark feature was Home Fires Burning, a 1989 adaptation of his novel.

He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The University of Alabama with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees, and holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Queens College of Charlotte. He was named "Outstanding Alumnus" of the University of Alabama College of Communication in 1989.
 

Inman and his wife, Paulette, live in Charlotte and Boone, North Carolina. (Author's Web Site)

Bibliography:
Captain Saturday
Coming Home  
Dairy Queen Days  
Home Fires Burning  
Old Dogs And Children

Author's Website:
http://www.robert-inman.com/about.asp 

Last Updated:
18 April 2002

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