Robert Inman
ROBERT INMAN, novelist, screenwriter and playwright, is a native of Elba, Alabama, where he began his writing career in junior high school with his hometown weekly newspaper. He left a 31 year career in journalism in 1996 to devote full time to fiction writing. He is the author of four novels: Home Fires Burning, Old Dogs and Children, Dairy Queen Days, and Captain Saturday. Down Home Press published a collection of his non-fiction work, Coming Home: Life, Love and All Things Southern, in 2000. Inman is the author of two stage plays, the musical comedy "Crossroads" and "The Christmas Bus." He has written screenplays for six motion pictures for television, two of which have been "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentations. His script for "The Summer of Ben Tyler" won the Writer's Guild of America Award as the best original television screenplay of 1997. His other Hallmark feature was "Home Fires Burning," a 1989 adaptation of his novel. Inman and his wife, Paulette, live in Charlotte and Boone, N.C.
