![]() ![]() What I’m really after is a discussion about what it means and what it feels like to be there in that space (where history is being made). But, of course, historians even debate the facts and the meaning of history. “You need to go to historians to get history. “I always say that the historical novel is not history,” said Grooms, who joined Kennesaw State in 1995 and now directs its Master of Professional Writing program. ![]() ![]() While the civil rights-era bombings, marches and protests in Birmingham and the Walton County lynchings are facts of history, Grooms says he didn’t set out to write history. The novel’s release comes just one month after both Georgia and federal investigators officially closed their inquiries into the murders, determining that none of the known suspects are still alive. In his second novel, “The Vain Conversation,” scheduled for release March 1, Grooms turns once again to the well of history, this time drawing his story and characters from an unsolved case of two African-American couples lynched in 1946 by a mob of whites at Moore’s Ford Bridge in Walton County, Ga. experienced during the civil rights movement as they faced bombings, water hoses and attack dogs. In his first novel, the award-winning “Bombingham,” Kennesaw State writing professor Tony Grooms drew parallels between the moral challenges presented by the Vietnam War and the fear and terror African-Americans in Birmingham, Ala. Novelist Tony Grooms tells stories from history Tony Grooms ![]()
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