In 1978, Raines joined The New York Times. The two books he had been working on, Whiskey Man and My Soul Is Rested, were published the following year. Raines returned to journalism in 1976, when he became the political editor of the St. He wrote freelance articles and worked on a novel and a collection of civil rights movement oral histories. He became the political editor in 1974, a few months before quitting to write full time. In 1971, Raines went to Atlanta to work for The Atlanta Constitution. From 1970 to 1971, Raines was the film critic for The Birmingham News.

To support his wife and children, he quit the News and worked briefly in his family’s store-fixture business as a plant foreman. He also worked at the Tuscaloosa News from 1968 to 1969. In 1968, he enrolled at the University of Alabama, working on a master’s degree in English (which was awarded in 1973). A member of the US Army National Guard, Raines was called to active duty for six months in 1967.

He was a staff writer for a Birmingham television station, WBRC-TV, from 1965 to 1967. Deciding that journalism would be more exciting than graduate school, Raines worked for the Birmingham Post-Herald from 1964 to 1965. Raines attended Birmingham-Southern College, earning a BA in English in 1964. He decided at age ten that he wanted to write when he grew up. Howell Raines was born and raised in Birmingham, Ala.

Pulitzer Prize, Feature Writing, 1992, for 'Grady's Gift,' published in The New York Times Magazine.

Alabama Author Award, Alabama Library Association, 1978, for Whiskey Man.

Alabama Author Award, Alabama Library Association, 1978, for My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered.

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County: education, adult residence.Birmingham, Jefferson County: birthplace, education, childhood residence, adult residence.|d Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England New York, N.Y.Howell Raines (February 5, 1943–present) Other Names Used |a Pennsylvania Aboliton Society Complimentary Collection.

|a Chronology of the civil rights movement in the deep South, 1955-68 - Prelude - Book One: Beginning, Montgomery Black surprise, Student sit-ins and the birth of SNCC Freedom riders Alabama, Battleground state, Part one, Birmingham, Part two, Selma Mississippi - Book Two: Down-home resistance Higher education Lawyers and lawmen Reporters Assorted Camelot - Recessional. |a Personal recollections capture the courage and faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement. |b movement days in the Deep South remembered

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