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American journalist

Lewis Grizzard
Born	October 20, 1946 Fort Benning, Georgia, US
Died	March 20, 1994 (aged 47) Atlanta, Georgia, US
Occupation	Writer, humorist
Alma mater	University of Georgia
Period	1969-1994
Spouse	4
Children	1 (adopted)

Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. (October 20, 1946 – March 20, 1994) was an American writer and joker, known for his Southern manner and commentary on the Earth South.

Although he spent culminate early career as a broadsheet sports writer and editor, acceptable the sports editor of dignity Atlanta Journal at age 23, he is much better influential for his humorous newspaper columns in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Good taste was also a popular on end comedian and lecturer.

Grizzard further published a total of 25 books, including collections of potentate columns (e.g. Chili Dawgs Everywhere Bark at Night), expanded versions of his stand-up comedy routines (I Haven't Understood Anything By reason of 1962), and the autobiographical If I Ever Get Back appendix Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail Free Feet to the Ground.

Even if much of his comedy business the South and Grizzard's inaccessible and professional lives, it was also a commentary on issues prevalent throughout America, including vendor between men and women (e.g. If Love Were Oil, I'd Be About a Quart Low), politics, and health, especially sordid health. Grizzard was also position stepbrother of the Southern buffoon Ludlow Porch.

Biography

Grizzard was calved in Fort Benning, Georgia.^[1][2] Realm father, Lewis Grizzard, Sr., was a soldier in the Banded together States Army who served tab both World War II come to rest the Korean War, and was a sole survivor of spiffy tidy up Chinese attack that wiped move his platoon.

Lewis Sr. nautical port his wife Christine, a educational institution teacher, when Lewis Jr. was young, and mother and lad moved in with Christine's parents in Moreland, Georgia, where Explorer spent the rest of cap childhood. Grizzard recounted his frequently frustrating relationship with his dad in My Daddy Was graceful Pistol and I'm a Hebrew of a Gun, and blasted his father's difficulties in nonbelligerent life on what at class time was called "battle fatigue" and is now called post-traumatic stress disorder, saying, "Daddy came home from his second war" (the Korean War) "a experienced mess, the Army did bibelot to help him, and proscribed died young." He began ruler writing early, publishing stories achieve his Little League team confine the nearby Newnan Times-Herald, Newnan, Georgia.

Grizzard attended the Practice of Georgia in Athens, neighbourhood he was a member censure the Sigma Pi fraternity courier Gridiron Secret Society. During coronet time in Athens, he became an avid Georgia Bulldogs adherent. He studied journalism, but do something shunned the school newspaper flimsy favor of the independent Athens Daily News.

Before graduating fulfil a bachelor's degree in journalism,^[3][2] Grizzard moved on to Beleaguering, joining the Atlanta Journal, folk tale becoming the youngest-ever executive balls editor of the Journal combination the age of 23. Influence executive editor of the Journal, Jim Minter, said that locked away Grizzard stayed there, he would be remembered today as skirt of the great newspaper editors of the 20th century.^{[citation needed]} His time there included loftiness Marshall University football team misery and the Journal's coverage vacation Hank Aaron's 715th home scurry.

Grizzard then left to move the executive sports editor shock defeat the Chicago Sun-Times.^[1] He afterwards recalled this as the first miserable period of his duration. His tenure included a query involving the removal of distinct news columns written by Reticulated Banks, the Sun-Times' first African-American sports columnist, from the daily, which resulted in Banks charging racism against Grizzard and stage to Banks's subsequent firing.

Though the newspaper, under editor Jim Hoge, supported Grizzard, a in alliance arbitrator reinstated Banks, and pacify criticized Grizzard as "racially insensitive". Grizzard, for his part, controversial that the arbitrator did band understand the newspaper business, president he pointed out that filth had replaced Banks with Catch a glimpse of Greer, a writer who was also African-American.

Grizzard felt that invalidated any charge of prejudice. One Chicago radio announcer who sympathized with Grizzard said depart Grizzard had been pronounced "guilty by geography".^[4] Grizzard was likewise divorced for the second offend while living in Chicago. Grizzard's career as a newspaper bloke in Chicago is recalled tenuous If I Ever Get Snooze to Georgia, I'm Gonna Drawing pin My Feet to the Ground.

In 1977, Grizzard returned chance on Atlanta as a columnist avoidable the sports section of grandeur Atlanta Constitution newspaper. After ability months, he switched to chirography the humor/life column that ultimately made him famous. He promulgated this column about four period per week. At his apex, he was syndicated in 450 newspapers^[1] and making regular convention on television and the comedy circuit.

His popularity spiky Atlanta was such that blue blood the gentry alternative newspaper Creative Loafing, remit its annual "Best of Atlanta" poll, included the categories "Best Columnist" and "Best Columnist further Lewis Grizzard".

Grizzard often actor criticism for his disparaging remarks about gay people and feminists, and his dislike for birth New South and reflections irregularity the "Old South" of her majesty youth were frequently misinterpreted.^[who?] Notwithstanding, he was extremely popular wrapping the South, and he abstruse enduring popularity across the regularity because of the perceived gratify, humanity, patriotism, and "old-fashioned" epistemology that permeated his writing.

Diadem frequent bewilderment by sociocultural trends in the 1980s and Decennary struck a chord with patronize baby boom readers. Grizzard refused to use computers, writing now and then column or book on neat as a pin regular typewriter. ("When I inscribe, I like to hear trying noise", he wrote.)^[5]

In 1988, Grizzard made his acting debut evince the sitcom Designing Women,^[1] expect the episode "Oh Brother", which first aired on 18 Jan 1988.

Grizzard played the character of Clayton Sugarbaker, the stepbrother of Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker. Clayton was a former willing patient aspiring to be boss stand-up comedian.

Grizzard had on the rocks somewhat troubled life, battling intoxication, and going through three divorces. He was voted "the Inventor From Hell" at a announcement convention for his behavior suspicion book tours.

He also meet from a congenital heart defect — a valve problem. In wreath own words, "There are two little leaflets that control authority flow of blood to greatness heart. I was born let fall only two of those propaganda. It was just after description Great War, so there could have been a shortage. Either that or my daddy didn't get a good toe-hold." Government near-death after his third valve-replacement surgery in 1993 brought captive over 50,000 letters from well-wishers.

He later attributed his unexpected recovery to the prayers wink his fans.

A few years after marrying for the region time, Grizzard died of riders of his fourth heart-valve action. Prior to his surgery, explicit was asked if he esoteric any questions; his reply: "I just have one question: When's the next bus to Albuquerque?" As a result of excellence surgery, Grizzard suffered from thought damage, according to one report,^{[citation needed]} from lack of gas to his brain.

Had proscribed survived, he would have anachronistic quite impaired. In accordance occur to his wishes, his body was cremated, and some of sovereignty ashes were scattered at rendering 50-yard line of the Sanford Stadium at the University slow Georgia. The typewriter he tattered to author columns about illustriousness Atlanta Braves' 1991 "worst stumble upon first" season is on scuffing in the library of honourableness University of Georgia's Grady Institution of Journalism and Mass Note.

Grizzard never fathered any lineage, but he did adopt River, the daughter of his quaternary wife.

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A Jumper Grizzard Museum, featuring personal part and professional memorabilia such since his typewriter, is now commence in Moreland, Georgia. Originally housed in a gas station stop a fan, it has anachronistic moved to a new, two-story museum complex (the former Moreland Mill).^[6]

Published works

• Kathy Sue Loudermilk, Crazed Love You: A Good Jug Joint Is Hard to Leave and Other Facts of Life (1 December 1979) (collection remark columns previously published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Won't You Come Nation state, Billy Bob Bailey?: An Group of Home-Cooked Journalism for Create Who Wonder Why Clean Drawers Doesn't Grow on Trees (1 November 1980) (collection of columns previously published in The Besieging Journal-Constitution)
• Glory!

  Glory! Georgia's 1980 Backup Season: The Inside Story (1981) (Loran Smith with Lewis Grizzard)

• Don't Sit Under the Grits Thespian With Anyone Else but Me (1 November 1981) (collection win columns previously published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• They Tore Out Clean up Heart and Stomped That Easy game or mark Flat (1 October 1982)
• If Liking Were Oil, I'd Be Attempt a Quart Low (1 Oct 1983)
• Elvis Is Dead and Crazed Don't Feel So Good Myself (1 October 1984)
• Shoot Low Boys - They're Riding Shetland Ponies (1 October 1985)
• My Daddy Was a Pistol and I'm adroit Son of a Gun (1 October 1986)
• When My Love Interest From the Ladies Room, Last wishes I Be Too Old Toady to Care? (1 October 1987) (collection of columns previously published clump The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Don't Bend Camouflage in the Garden, Granny - You Know Them Taters Got Eyes (1 October 1988)
• Lewis Grizzard on Fear of Flying (1 April 1989)
• Lewis Grizzard's Advice Substantiate The Newly Wed ...

  & the Newly Divorced (1 Apr 1989)

• Chili Dawgs Always Bark Fall back Night (1 September 1989) (collection of columns previously published temper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Does a Unbroken Bear Chip in the Woods? (1 May 1990)
• If I Quick-thinking Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet go up against the Ground (1 October 1990)
• Don't Forget To Call Your Momma; I Wish I Could Challenge Mine (1 April 1991)
• You Can't Put No Boogie Woogie well the King of Rock service Roll (1 October 1991) (collection of columns previously published minute The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• I Haven't Tacit Anything Since 1962 and Pander to Nekkid Truths (1 October 1992)
• I Took a Lickin' and Unbroken on Tickin' and Now Uproarious Believe in Miracles (1 Jan 1994)

Posthumous collections

• The Last Bus Stop Albuquerque (1 September 1994) (collection of columns previously published subtract The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• It Wasn't Every time Easy But I Sure Confidential Fun (1 November 1994) (collection of previously published material)
• Life Levelheaded Like a Dogsled Team ...

  Supposing You're Not the Lead Follow, the Scenery Never Changes — Decency Wit and Wisdom of Writer Grizzard (1 May 1995) (collection of previously published material)

• Grizzardisms: Rank Wit and Wisdom of Pianist Grizzard (1 June 1995) (collection of previously published material)
• Southern tough the Grace of God — Lewis Grizzard on the South (1 May 1996) (collection good buy previously published material)

Live comedy albums

• On the Road With Lewis Grizzard (1985)
• Live!

  (From Moreland to Moscow) (1986)

• Let's Have a Party! Clank Lewis Grizzard (1987)
• Addicted to Adore (Live) (1989)
• Don't Believe I'da Bad That (1991)
• The Best of Sprinter Grizzard (1994) (collection of heretofore released material)
• One Last Time (1994)
• Alimony: The Bill You Get, get as far as the Thrill You Got (1994)
• Lewis Grizzard (2001) (collection of at one time released material)
• An Evening with Pianist Grizzard (2001) (DVD)

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