by Stephen Enzweiler

A native of Glen Allan, Miss., Clifton Taulbert is best known for his non-fiction books Once Upon A Time When I Was Colored and Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values that Build Strong Communities. He received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his book The Last Train North (1992), was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction, and was named TIME Magazine’s Outstanding Black Entrepreneur. He’s a graduate of Greenville’s O’Bannon High School and earned his bachelor’s degree from Oral Roberts University; he later earned a graduate degree from Southern Methodist University. He also authored a series of children’s books with a character named “Little Cliff,” and is recognized as one of Mississippi’s great contemporary black American authors.

by Stephen Enzweiler