Ben Beard
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Ben Beard is a writer and librarian. He is the co-author of This Day in Civil Rights History and the author of Muhammad Ali: The Greatest, and King Midas in Reverse. In the 2000s, Beard reviewed movies and wrote features for InSite Magazine, King Kudzu, and Filmmonthly.com, where he also worked as an editor. Beard, a native of Georgia who spent his formative years in the Florida Panhandle and Alabama, currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three children. He is always working on a new book.
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (African American Profiles for Young Readers) | The Bad Class: Class of 1984, Bad Boys, The Outsiders, Repo Man, and Other Gems of ’80s Trash Cinema | The South Never Plays Itself, The: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen | This Day in Civil Rights History