Mobile Public Library: Growing up in the Port City

Writing from the Heart of Mobile: Frye Gaillard and Roy Hoffman, two award-winning authors born and raised in Mobile, will talk about how growing up in the Port City shaped their perspectives and careers as writers.

Both are former journalists and alumni of the Mobile Register and both have won such prestigious literary prizes as the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Clarence Cason Award. Gaillard will discuss his newest book, A Hard Rain: America in the