Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Wayne Flyntis a Distinguished University Professor of History at Auburn University and author or coauthor of eleven books, including Alabama in the Twentieth Century; Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie; Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites; Alabama: The History of a Deep South State; and Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950. He has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing, the James F. Sulzby Book Award (twice), and the Alabama Library Association Award for nonfiction (twice).

"Dr. Flynt is one of our finest writers. Keeping the Faith tells us why."--Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird

"Wayne Flynt is unconcerned with whitewashing -- in his life, and in his state -- and that gives Keeping the Faith a kind of double-barreled power and beauty. This is a lovely memoir by a boy born between the Great Depression and a great war, to imperfect but never dull people who lived, like most of our people, between love and hate and faith and whiskey. But it is much more. It is the eye-witness account and intellectual examination of a state at war with itself for generations, a story of broken institutions, and failed, doomed ideals. Wayne Flynt chose to make his life here, not carping from the sidelines but working from within. You can hear a heart breaking in this book, as you turn the pages, but this a man of faith, and a story of it."—Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody Told Me

"A must read for every Alabamian. As an acclaimed historian, Flynt tells the story of a state and a people from a very unique perspective. By writing about his family and own life, we get to know the unvarnished truth of Alabama. Here you'll meet the good, the bad, and the ugly. An insightful, fascinating and terrific book. Highly recommended. -- Ace Atkins, author of Wicked City