Willie Earl Scott

Born and raised in the American South, the only surviving child of a crackwhore mother and truant father once among the FBI's 10 Most Wanted, Willie Earl Scott is a prisoner and scholar whose life has endured more dark than light *** He has ventured ethnic villages and urban ghettos about the globe, broke bread with politicos, poets, and panhandlers. He has rubbed elbows with ministers, musicians and murderers, with gods, gentlemen, and gangsters, each giving apiece of themselves to live on in great literature. *** An entrepreneur known widely as Willie Redd, he garnered, from an Alabama prison cell, great prominence in Europe, where his works have been singled-out by opponents yet where he has something of a rabid, cultlike following of readers and lovers of his thrilling tales.