The Candidate, the 'Commies' and the World's Longest Camel

Hunter James has spent more than thirty-five years as an editorialist and correspondent for such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and Baltimore Sun, winning numerous press association awards for his work, as well as a share of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He is a highly seasoned political reporter and has written extensively on the civil rights movement of the sixties. His articles and stories have appeared in Newsweek, National Geographic (book division), Historic Preservation, Southern Magazine, The Southern Review and in many other magazines and periodicals. This is his eighth book and second work of fiction. He also served in the late seventies as a fellow for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He now spends most of his time free lancing and writing "wicked" novels and short stories, as Fred Chappell, a premier American author and North Carolina's poet laureate, said of James's first fictional work, The Rosary