ASA EARL CARTER
Name: Asa Earl Carter
Born: September 4, 1925
Died: June 7, 1979
Asa Carter was born in Anniston, Alabama in 1925, the eldest of four children.
Despite his claims (as author "Forrest" Carter) that he was orphaned, he was in
fact raised by his parents, Ralph and Hermione Carter--both of whom lived into
Carter's adulthood--in nearby Oxford, Alabama.
Asa Earl Carter was an American speechwriter and author.
He worked as a speechwriter for segregationist Governor George
Wallace of Alabama, and was founder of the North Alabama Citizens Council (NACC)
and a pro-segregation monthly titled The Southerner. Under an assumed identity
as 'Forrest Carter,' he published two Westerns and a purported memoir, The
Education of Little Tree, in which he portrays himself as having been orphaned
into the care of Cherokee grandparents. In 1976, following the success of his
western The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales Forrest Carter was revealed to be
segregationist Asa Earl Carter by the New York Times. His background once again
became national news in 1991 after Little Tree topped the Times paperback best-seller
lists (both non-fiction, and later, fiction) and won the American Booksellers
Name: Asa Earl Carter
Born: September 4, 1925
Died: June 7, 1979
Asa Carter was born in Anniston, Alabama in 1925, the eldest of four children.
Despite his claims (as author "Forrest" Carter) that he was orphaned, he was in
fact raised by his parents, Ralph and Hermione Carter--both of whom lived into
Carter's adulthood--in nearby Oxford, Alabama.
Asa Earl Carter was an American speechwriter and author.
He worked as a speechwriter for segregationist Governor George
Wallace of Alabama, and was founder of the North Alabama Citizens Council (NACC)
and a pro-segregation monthly titled The Southerner. Under an assumed identity
as 'Forrest Carter,' he published two Westerns and a purported memoir, The
Education of Little Tree, in which he portrays himself as having been orphaned
into the care of Cherokee grandparents. In 1976, following the success of his
western The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales Forrest Carter was revealed to be
segregationist Asa Earl Carter by the New York Times. His background once again
became national news in 1991 after Little Tree topped the Times paperback best-seller
lists (both non-fiction, and later, fiction) and won the American Booksellers