FLOYD C. WATKINS (April 19, 1920 - May 7, 2000) was the author of more than one hundred books and articles primarily about Southern authors, Southern literature, and life in the South.
Born and ra...view moreFLOYD C. WATKINS (April 19, 1920 - May 7, 2000) was the author of more than one hundred books and articles primarily about Southern authors, Southern literature, and life in the South.
Born and raised in Ball Ground, Georgia, he attended Georgia Southern College (B.S., 1946), Emory University (M.A., 1947), and Vanderbilt University (Ph. D., 1952). He began a teaching career at Emory in 1949, and was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Literature.
He died in 2000.
CHARLES HUBERT WATKINS (February 23, 1897 - September 21, 1974) and his son Floyd were natives of Ball Ground, Georgia, the locale of their 1936 book Yesterday in the Hills.
Charles Hubert Watkins farmed and taught school in Ball Ground and also served as its mayor.
He died in 1974.view less