Alan Huffman

Alan Huffman

Alan Huffman is an author and journalist from Bolton, Mississippi. He is known as the author of "Mississippi in Africa", a nonfiction work detailing the story of two hundred freed slaves who journeyed from Mississippi to Liberia in the hope of establishing a new colony. He is also the author of "Ten Point", a photoessay book.

Huffman has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian, Oxford American, Outside, Preservation, BeachBlvd., Lost, American Legacy, and The Washington Post Magazine. During most of the 1980s he headed the environmental desk of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

He moved the Holly Grove Plantation House from near Port Gibson, Mississippi to Bolton, Mississippi in 1990. The home is now a National Historical Landmark.

External links

*Mississippi in Africa [http://www.mississippiinafrica.com]
*National Public Radio interview with Huffman [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1642893]


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