Albert Lee Murray

Albert Murray was born in Nokomis and educated at Tuskeegee Institute where he taught alongside Ralph Ellison. He is respected as the nation's premiere writer of Blues music and personalities. He received the ASCAP award for music criticism and the Lillian Smith Award. He was named by the Alabama Library Association as Author of the Year, and he just recently was presented with the Harper Lee Lifetime Literary Award in Monroeville.

He retired as a major in the United States Air Force and has been writer-in-residence, lecturer, and held chair positions at many of the most prestigious colleges in the nation.

Albert Murray's books include the following:

The Good Morning Blues
The Hero and the Blues
South to a Very Old Place
The Omni-Americans
From the Brairpatch File
The Spyglass Tree
Stomping the Blues
Train Whistle Guitar
The Seven League Boots