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Richard Whitt, the author of this book, died from a heart attack at his home in Marietta, Georgia, the very day the book’s final edits were completed. He was 64. A native of eastern Kentucky, he had been a journalist for more than thirty-five years. He worked first at several small newspapers, then for more than a decade at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for his investigation of the causes of a 1977 fire that claimed 165 lives at a northern Kentucky supper club. He finished his newspaper career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he retired in 2006. He was a well-respected investigative reporter on state and local government in Georgia and had a legion of admiring friends and colleagues. He attended the University of Kentucky and was inducted into the school’s Journalism Hall of Fame in 1995. The UK Journalism School has established the Richard Whitt Memorial Fund for Rural Journalists in his honor.