Charters, Samuel

Samuel Charters (1929-2015) is the author of the award-winning "The Roots of the Blues". He is also the author of "A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz" and coauthor of "Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation", both from University Press of Mississippi. He was a Grammy-winning record producer, musician, poet, and fiction writer, and he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994.