Atkins, Ace

Ace Atkins earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2001 while at The Tampa Tribune for his investigation into a forgotten murder of the 1950s that later became the basis for White Shadow. The Alabama native, also the author of four Nick Travers novels - Crossroad Blues, Leavin Trunk Blues, Dark End of the Street, and Dirty South - lives on a farm outside Oxford, Mississippi.