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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 12 > Hemphill wrote of South, music

Hemphill wrote of South, music

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 12, 2009

ATLANTA — Atlanta writer Paul Hemphill, who chronicled the blue-collar South with his memoir “Leaving Birmingham” and wrote a biography of country singer Hank Williams, died Saturday. He was 73.

Hemphill, who had cancer, had spent some time in hospice care,....

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