Marshall Bolton Frady was an American Emmy Award-winning journalist and author particularly known for his work on the civil rights movement in the American South.
11 Facts About Marshall Frady
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Marshall Frady's articles appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Life and Harper's, and he contributed to the American Broadcasting Company's news series Close Up and Nightline.
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Marshall Frady's father, Rev J Yates Frady, was a minister in the Southern Baptist church.
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In 1963, Marshall Frady received a bachelor's degree from Furman University, where he later joined the faculty as writer in residence.
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Marshall Frady began as a journalist at Newsweek, later moving to the Saturday Evening Post and contributing to Harper's and Life.
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Marshall Frady was married four times, to Susanne Barker, Gloria Mochel, and Gudrun Barbara Schunk, whom he married on May 14,1975, and in 1989 to Barbara Gandolfo-Marshall Frady who survived him.
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The author of several books, Marshall Frady is best known for Wallace, his first.
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Originally intended as a novel, the work became a nonfiction project after Marshall Frady conducted eight months of interviews with Wallace's staff and associates.
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In 1971, Marshall Frady published Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage through the Middle East, which recounted his travels in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan.
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Marshall Frady died of cancer on March 9,2004, in Greenville, South Carolina.
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At the time of his death, Marshall Frady owed approximately $200,000 in taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, causing his papers to be seized and auctioned off by the agency.