Asa Carter (1925 - 1979)

Born 4 Sep 1925 in Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama, United States

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Died 7 Jun 1979 at age 53 in Abilene, Taylor, Texas, United States

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Biography

Asa "Forrest Carter" was born in 1925. He passed away in 1979.

The Education of Little Tree is a memoir-style novel written by Asa Earl Carter under the pseudonym Forrest Carter. First published in 1976.^[1]

Asa Earl Carter was a 1950s segregationist speech writer, and later Western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket.

Years later, under the alias of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was adopted into the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir, but which turned out to be fiction.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Education_of_Little_Tree
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter

• Wikipedia: Asa Earl Carter