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BIO
Alvin S. Franklin grew up in Flint, Michigan, and spent his working life in transportation, driving trucks and then buses across the country before settling into transit work in Huntsville, Alabama, where he still drives today. He did not set out to become an author. What he had was a box of his grandmother's 1800s papers and the stubbornness to find out what they meant.
Those papers held the real story of Lucy Beasley, and tracing it led him to the Arkansas State Archives and, eventually, to Good Golly Miss Molly. He describes himself as quiet and laid-back, the type who stays out of the spotlight and gets the work done. He stepped forward as the face of this project for one reason: the story is his, and it is worth telling right.
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