Frady, Marshall

Marshall Frady, civil rights reporter, author, and broadcast journalist, was born in Augusta, Georgia on January 11, 1940. Frady began his writing career in 1966 as a journalist, working in the Atlanta and Los Angeles bureaus of NEWSWEEK. He later wrote for THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, HARPER'S, and LIFE magazines. In 1969 Frady published WALLACE, a biography of the Alabama governor and presidential candidate. In the late 1970s, Frady moved to television journalism, and was chief writer and host of CLOSEUP from 1979-1986. Frady wrote several more biographies, including BILLY GRAHAM: A PARABLE OF AMERICAN RIGHTEOUSNESS (1979), JESSE: THE LIFE AND PILGRIMAGE OF JESSE JACKSON (1996), and MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (2002). He was working on a biography of Fidel Castro when he died on March 9, 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina.

From the description of Marshall Frady papers, 1950-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276369770