“Newspaperman on their time, fiction writer on mine.”
That’s how David Wesley Williams describes the writing life — his life. He’s served as sports writer and now as sports editor at The Commercial Appeal for 25 years. But he’s a writer of short stories and novels too. And this week sees the publication of his debut novel, Long Gone Daddies (John F. Blair, Publisher), on March 5th, which happens to be the 50th anniversary of Patsy Cline’s death — an important date given that Long Gone Daddies draws on the music that Williams loves most: country classics, Delta R&B, and early Memphis rock and soul.
