Hicks, Steven Wells

Steven Wells Hicks came to the Deep South in pursuit of one beautiful woman, married a different one (the South is rife with them, after all), bought a gray seersucker suit and discovered the natural correlation between mid-afternoon August and cold beer. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Coe College, he failed as a sportswriter on a one-horse Nebraska daily, a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman in the tenements of Boston and dreadful actor in Atlanta before he discovered a knack for sitting behind a typewriter in an advertising agency and separating the particul...