“Hellhound on His Trail”
There’s no need to wait until Labor Day weekend to hear some of the country’s best authors hosted in Atlanta by the AJC Decatur Book Festival (AJC DBF). On Wednesday, May 5, at 7 p.m., AJC DBF and the Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta will co-host renowned historian Hampton Sides in the Cecil B. Day Chapel at the Carter Center (453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307). This event is free and open to the public.
Sides, the award-winning editor of Outside magazine and author of two critically acclaimed histories, will talk about his newest book, “Hellhound on His Trail — The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin.” Additionally, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former managing editor of the AJC, Hank Klibanoff, will interview Sides onstage.
AJC DBF Program Director Tom Bell said the Hampton Sides event is part of the Festival’s mission to host noteworthy literary events year-round. “We’re delighted to be able to work with the MJCCA and the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum to present Hampton Sides this spring while we’re putting together our author events for the Labor Day weekend festival,” Bell said.
Set for publication April 27, the AJC DBF event will be the first Atlanta presentation Sides will make following the book’s release. PBS is scheduled to air a companion documentary, “Road to Memphis,” on May 3 that features Sides. The Memphis native has won wide acclaim for his bestselling histories “Blood and Thunder” about the American West and “Ghost Soldiers” about the American Civil War, for which he won the 2002 PEN USA award for nonfiction.
“Hellhound on His Trail” tells the story of how convicted assassin James Earl Ray stalked Dr. King in the weeks leading up to the April 4, 1968 murder and how the FBI, under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, shifted gears from a policy of harassing Dr. King to leading one of the largest manhunts in history to find his killer.
Sides has a BA in history from Yale. He is a past fellow of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Japan Society, and a media fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He has appeared as a guest on such national broadcasts as The American Experience, the Today Show, Book TV, the History Channel, Fresh Air, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and NPR's "All Things Considered."
The AJC Decatur Book Festival will celebrate its fifth year of bringing a wide variety of authors and events to the downtown Decatur Square Labor Day weekend, September 3-5, 2010.
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