Taking The Mayhill

By Kleinheider Posted on June 16, 2008 at 7:49 am

The New Yorker profiles Mayhill Fowler, the citizen journalist of the hour with Tennessee roots:

Fowler comes from Tennessee—“My mother’s from a Southern-gothic family with a rich political history,” she said—although many of her relatives have since moved to Houston, “or Hoo-town, as I fondly call it.” Her maternal grandfather, Watkins Overton, was the mayor of Memphis, and her great-grand-uncle C. P. J. Mooney, she once wrote, was a “muckraking newspaper editor who broke the power of the Klan in the state.”

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