Clyde Bolton
Clyde Bolton (born in Wellington) is an author and former sports writer for The Birmingham News.
Bolton spent parts of his childhood in several small towns in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. He struggled with pre-pharmacy classes at Jacksonville State University. He took a job with a newspaper and worked for the LaGrange Daily News in LaGrange, Georgia and for the Anniston Star, Gadsden Times and Montgomery Advertiser before being hired by the News in 1961.
He retired in August 2001 after forty years with the paper. He was named Alabama Sports Columnist of the Year in 1988, 1992 and 1999 and was inducted into the Alabama Sports Writers Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2011 he received the Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing from Alabama's College of Communication and Information Sciences.
Bolton and his wife, Sandra, life in an A-frame house of her design in Trussville. They have three grown sons.
Publications
- Bolton, Clyde (1972) The Crimson Tide
- Bolton, Clyde (1974) Unforgettable Days in Southern Football Strode Publishing ISBN 0873970578
- Bolton, Clyde (1975) Bolton's Best: Stories of Auto Racing Strode Publishing ISBN 0873970608
- Bolton, Clyde (1977) Basketball Tide: A Story of Alabama Basketbal Strode Publishing ISBN 0873971108
- Bolton, Clyde War Eagle
- Bolton, Clyde The Alabama Gang
- Bolton, Clyde And Now I See
- Bolton, Clyde Silver Britches
- Bolton, Clyde War Eagle
- Bolton, Clyde They Wore Crimson
- Bolton, Clyde Remembering Davey
- Bolton, Clyde Water Oaks
- Bolton, Clyde Ivy
- Bolton, Clyde (1994) The Lost Sunshine. Black Belt Press ISBN 1881320065
- Bolton, Clyde (1994) 25th Anniversary of Talladega Superspeedway. UMI Publications ISBN 0943860083
- Bolton, Clyde (1999) Nancy Swimmer : A Story of the Cherokee Nation Highland Press ISBN 0963027336
- Bolton, Clyde (2002) Turn Left On Green: A Novel of Stock Car Racing River City Publishing ISBN 1579660274
- Bolton, Clyde (2005) Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off) : Tales from Forty Years
of Sports Writing. Fire Ant Press ISBN 081735252X
- Bolton, Clyde (2010) Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood. New South Books ISBN 1588382001
References
- Kemp, Kathy (August 29, 2010) "Retired Birmingham News sportswriter Clyde Bolton loves living in past." The Birmingham News
- Wolfson, Hannah (March 3, 2011) "Former Birmingham News sportswriter Clyde Bolton honored at University of Alabama." The Birmingham News