This Wednesday, January 24 at 5 p.m., Howell Raines ’64, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former executive editor of The New York Times, will be discussing and signing copies of his new book: Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History. The signing is at Alabama Booksmith in Homewood. 

After graduating from Birmingham-Southern, Raines earned a master’s degree from the University of Alabama, then worked as a reporter for The Birmingham News, The Birmingham Post-Herald, Tuscaloosa News, The Atlanta Journal, and St. Petersburg Times. Following his celebrated work at each of these stops, he headed to The New York Times, working there for 25 years as White House Correspondent, London Bureau Chief,  Washington Bureau Chief, Editorial Page Editor, and Executive Editor. In 1992, Raines received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his essay “Grady’s Gift,” focused on his childhood in Alabama.

In addition to his new release, Raines has written two memoirs — Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis and The One That Got Away — each employing fly fishing to further explore his life and career, a novel titled Whiskey Man, and My Soul is Rested — a history of the Civil Rights Movement. 

Read more about the upcoming signing here. We hope to see you there to celebrate more great work from a  legendary BSC alumnus.