Forrest Carter
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Brief Biography
Forrest Carter, originally known as Asa Earl Carter, was born in Alabama. He served in the US Navy during World War II and later worked as a radio announcer. Carter became involved in segregationist movements by publishing a segregationist magazine, starting a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, and working as a speechwriter for George C. Wallace. In the 1970s, he re-emerged under the pseudonym Bedford Forrest Carter and achieved literary success with novels like The Rebel Outlaw, Josey Wales and The Education of Little Tree. Despite his literary accomplishments, Carter's past and associations continued to generate public scrutiny. He passed away in Texas in 1979.
Publications
Rebel Outlaw; Josie Wales. S.l.; Whipperwill Publishers, 1973.
The Education of Little Tree. New York; Delacorte Press, 1976.
The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales. New York; Delacorte Press, 1976.
Watch For Me On the Mountain. New York; Delacorte Press, 1978.
Cry Geronimo. New York; Dell/Eleanor Friede Book, 1980.
The Education of Little Tree. New York; Delacorte Press, 1976.
The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales. New York; Delacorte Press, 1976.
Watch For Me On the Mountain. New York; Delacorte Press, 1978.
Cry Geronimo. New York; Dell/Eleanor Friede Book, 1980.
Themes
Forrest Carter was a novelist and a speech writer. His speeches expressed white supremacist views such as support for segregation. His fiction was largely adventure novels set in the West, with the exception of one autobiographical account of a Cherokee boy that turned out to be a hoax.
Publisher
Alabama Authors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://AlabamaAuthors.org
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Citation
Carter, Forrest, “Forrest Carter,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed September 19, 2024, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/552.