Booth, Jim

Jim Booth is Director of the Effective Writing Program at the University of Maryland University College. He holds bachelor and master's degrees from UNC Greensboro and a doctorate in writing and the teaching of writing from the University at Albany (SUNY). A former touring rock musician, Jim currently operates his own independent record label, Goat Boy Records. His wife Susan is a college administrator. One son, Joshua, is at Columbia University. The other, Trevor, is at N.C. State University. Jim is a fiction writer and the author of The New Southern Gentleman (Wexford College Press, 2002) an...