Meet the Author: Walton Young Book Signing

Avid Bookshop is pleased to announce an author visit and book signing with Walton Young on February 26, 2012, Saturday, at 4pm. 

Walton Young is the author of A Gathering of Eagles, a novel primarily set in Bartow County, Georgia about family and the land. This book deals with loss and the redemptive power of love.

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Biography of Walton Young

Walton Young was born in Rome, GA, and grew up in the Atlanta area. After graduating from Decatur High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Georgia State University, where he later earned a master’s degree in English. 

He worked more than thirty-two years in advertising at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 2005 he retired from the newspaper to write and to teach full-time. That same year he received his PhD in English from The University of Georgia, where his major concentration was creative writing (fiction). 
Young is associate professor of English at Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, GA. He teaches creative writing (fiction) and Southern literature.

Set primarily in Kingston in Bartow County during Christmas of 1919, Young’s novel, A Gathering of Eagles, is deeply rooted in time and place. It is about Prescott Freeman, who returns from the battlefields of France in the First World War to the family farm. He finds himself embroiled in another conflict—this one between families—a conflict fueled by greed and revenge. The novel is about family and about the land. It deals with loss and the redemptive power of love.

Young and his wife, Suzanne, who is from Athens, split their time between their homes in Sautee-Nacoochee in the north Georgia mountains and in Duluth. A Gathering of Eagles is his first published novel.