Journalist, photographer and publisher JAMES L. DICKERSON has published numerous biographies and histories, including Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes, The Hero Among Us: Memoirs of an FBI Witness Hunter, Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll Named best new book out of the South by the Independent Publishers Association), and Colonel Tom Parker, the movie rights of which were recently sold to a major Hollywood motion picture company for a movie about Elvis Presley. An award-winning journalist, he has worked as a staff writer for three Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers: The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), the Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News (Jackson, MS) and the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, MS). He is a former book critic for the Toronto Star, the Baltimore Sun, the Nashville Tennessean, BookPage, and the Jackson Free Press. As a photographer, Dickerson's work has sold to greeting card companies, national magazines, and exhibited at the prestigious New York photography gallery, the Neikurg Gallery (no longer open since the death of its owner).
