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Kathryn Tucker Windham

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The Resume

    (June 2, 1918- )
    Born in Selma, Alabama
    Writer, historian, journalist
    Most well-known for her books about ghosts in the South and news reporting from Selma, Alabama during the civil rights movement
    Performs a one woman play, 'My Name is Julia,' about women's prison reformer Julia Tutwiler
    BA from Huntingdon College

Why she might be annoying:

    Her cousin gave her her first reporter job at 12 when he made her the movie editor of his paper.
    She has written a series of books about ghosts in the South which includes a ghost named Jeffery as tour guide, i.e. Jeffery and thirteen Alabama Ghosts, Jeffery and Thirteen Georgia Ghosts, etc..

Why she might not be annoying:

    After only ten years of marriage, she was suddenly left a widow with three small children, which led her to return to her youthful love of newspaper reporting.
    She was a newspaper reporter in Selma during the sixties, an interesting time and place for reporting.
    She was the first woman to be assigned the police beat for a major Southern paper.
    Her one woman play, about prison reformer Julia Tutwiler, 'My Name is Julia,' is spell-binding.
    She has been for years a tireless advocate for the elderly.

Credit: tom_jeffords


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 88 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 25 Votes: 56.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 48 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying