Writing Biography With Howard Covington

In this episode, host Landis Wade has a conversation with biographer and non-fiction author Howard Covington about writing biography.

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Howard E. Covington Jr. is native of Concord, N.C., and a 1965 graduate of the University of Florida. He was a University Fellow of the American Political Science Association at the University of Michigan in 1973. He lives in Greensboro, N.C.

An early newspaper career as reporter and editor began in Florida and included more than a dozen years at North Carolina’s Charlotte Observer where he created and co-wrote a series of articles that in 1981 won, among other national awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service. For the past forty years, he has written more than twenty-five award-winning works of history and biography, most recently his book Beyond the Bank, Hugh McColl’s Chapter Two.