UA to Hold Book Signing for Alabama Author Robert Inman

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama author Robert Inman will sign copies of his new book, “Captain Saturday,” at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library in Mary Harmon Bryant Hall on The University of Alabama campus Monday, April 29, from 4-6 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

Inman was a television news anchor for 25 years and a Sunday columnist for the Charlotte Observer before leaving his 31-year career in journalism in June of 1996 to devote full time to writing.

A novelist and screenwriter, Inman is a native of Elba, where he began his writing career in junior high school with his hometown weekly newspaper. He is the author of three novels, all published by Little, Brown and Company: “Home Fires Burning” (1987), “Old Dogs and Children” (1991), and “Dairy Queen Days” (1997). His first two novels received the Outstanding Fiction Award from the Alabama Library Association. “Home Fires Burning” was named one of the best books of 1987 by the Philadelphia Enquirer. Down Home Press published a collection of his nonfiction work, “Coming Home: Life, Love, and All Things Southern,” in October 2000.

Inman has written screenplays for six motion pictures for television, two of which have been Hallmark Hall of Fame presentations. His script for “The Summer of Ben Tyler,” a Hallmark presentation, won the Writers Guild of America Award for the best original television screenplay of 1997. His other Hallmark feature was “Home Fires Burning,” a 1989 adaptation of his novel.

Inman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UA with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and he holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Queens College of Charlotte. He was named Outstanding Alumnus of the UA College of Communication in 1989.

He is a member of the Authors Guild, Writers Guild of America, PEN American Center, North Carolina Writers Conference, North Carolina Writers Network, and Alabama Writers Forum.

“Captain Saturday” will be available for purchase, as well as other works by the author including the new UA Press title which Inman contributed titled “The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers,” edited by Jay Lamar and Jeanie Thompson. This collection of reflective essays explores themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness, and showcases 19 nationally known writers with roots in Alabama.