Biography on kathryn tucker windham

Kathryn Tucker was born on June 2, 1918, in Selma, Alabama, and spent her childhood in Thomasville.

At the age of twelve she began writing movie reviews for The Thomasville Times, owned by her cousin Earl Tucker.

She graduated from Huntingdon College in 1939 and began work as a reporter for the Alabama Journal in 1940. She was one of the first female reporters to cover the police beat for a major daily newspaper in the South.

In 1942 she moved to Birmingham and in 1944 joined The Birmingham News.

She married Amassa Windham in 1946, and they moved to Selma where their three children were born.

Biography on kathryn tucker windham

In 1956 she joined the staff of The Selma Times-Journal where she won several Associated Press awards for writing and photography.

Her eight-book series of ghost stories began in 1964. One of her most popular books, Alabama: One Big Front Porch (1975), is a compilation of stories and other writings from across