Alabama Authors Directory

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Ruth Beaumont Cook

Hometown: Birmingham, AL Lives in: Birmingham, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: ruthbcook37@gmail.com

Address:

    • 1028 Linkside Drive
      Birmingham, AL 35242
      United States
  • Phone: (205) 991-1849
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email

 

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About Ruth Beaumont Cook

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Journalism

Available for: Readings, School Programs, In Person

Bio: Ruth Beaumont Cook is a graduate of the Ohio State University with a degree in English and German education. She has lived in Alabama since 1970 and has served on the planning committee of the Writing Today conference at Birmingham-Southern College and on the board of directors of the Alabama Writers’ Forum. She is the author of three books of narrative, nonfiction history that focus on lesser-known events in Alabama and southern history. Ruth has also written numerous articles on history, …Read More business and the arts for local, regional, and national publications. She has participated in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and will attend the Bayberry Writing Conference in Savannah in February 2024. She has spoken at book festivals, libraries, and literary groups across the southeast. For many years, she has maintained an active career as a business writing consultant, conducting workshops for major businesses and departments of Alabama state government. Currently, her major focus is fiction.

Works: EVOLUTION OF THE CARING COMPANY, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, 1991; BIRMINGHAM: Magic City Renaissance (co-authored with Joe, O’Donnell). Community Communications, 1992; NORTH ACROSS THE RIVER, Crane Hill Publishers, 1999. (paperback …Read More edition, 2000); GUESTS BEHIND THE BARBED WIRE, Crane Hill Publishers, 2007; THE DOERFLER-CHAN PROJECT, NewSouth Books, 2010; MAGIC IN STONE, NewSouth Books, 2019;
More than 200 feature articles, an ArtMonth column, and a Business Executive column for Birmingham Magazine (1983-1995)

Awards:

Bronze medal for outstanding historical writing from the Independent Publishers Group for GUESTS BEHIND THE BARBED WIRE, 2008.

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