Jack Bass
Jack Bass is an American author and journalist. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina,[1] and grew up in the town of North as the youngest of seven children. He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University for 1965-66.
He was named South Carolina Newspaperman of the Year in 1968 and 1972. His The Transfomation of Southern Politics was on the American Library Association's "Notable Books for Adults List" for 1976, and he received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Taming the Storm" in 1994.[2]
He has three children children by his first wife Carolyn McClung Smoak, Kenneth Bass, David Bass and Elizabeth Bass Broadway. He has six grandchildren. He is currently married to his third wife, author and television cooking personality Nathalie Dupree, with whom he lives in Charleston.
Bibliography
- The Orangeburg Massacre 1970 with Jack Nelson
- "Porgy Comes Home" 1972
- The Transformation of Southern Politics 1976, with Walter DeVries
- Unlikely Heroes
- Taming the storm: the life and times of Judge Frank M. Johnson and the South's fight over civil rights 1993
- Ol' Strom 1998 with Marilyn Thompson
- Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond 2005 with Marilyn Thompson
- "The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina" with Scott Poole