Hailman, John

John Hailman is a retired federal prosecutor from the US attorney's office in Oxford, Mississippi. He was both an inaugural Overby Fellow in Journalism and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of three previous books: the critically-acclaimed biography "Thomas Jefferson on Wine" (2006); the true-crime memoir "From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi" (2013), nominated Nonfiction Book of the Year by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters; and a book of essays on wine, food, and travel based on his nati...