| Wicked Greensboro Contributor(s): Sink, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609492757 ISBN-13: 9781609492755 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - True Crime |
| Dewey: 364.109 |
| LCCN: 2011008304 |
| Series: Wicked |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.50 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Locality - Greensboro-Winston-Salem, N.C. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a town where ladies of the evening walked the streets (but were legally bound to hide their ankles) and trouble rolled through town on the famous railways, this Piedmont city has seen its fair share of iniquity. From Frank Lucas, the drug lord whose childhood in Greensboro served as the catalyst for a life of crime, to the teacher who ruled his students with a switch and a pocketknife, the tales in Wicked Greensboro capture the shady side of the Gate City's past. Travel with local author Alice Sink down the streets of old-time Greensboro to view a city riddled with prostitution, bootlegging and all manner of unsavory and mischievous depravity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sink, Alice: - Alice E. Sink is the published author of books and numerous short stories, articles and essays in anthologies and in trade and literary magazines. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. For thirty years, she taught writing courses at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina, where she received the Meredith Clark Slane Distinguished Teaching/Service Award in 2002. The North Carolina Arts Council and the partnering arts councils of the Central Piedmont Regional Artists Hub Program awarded Sink a 2007 grant to promote her writing. |