![]() ![]() His second book, My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered, hit the shelves only a month later. ![]() In 1977, Raines published his first book, Whiskey Man, set in Depression-era Alabama and based roughly on his own family history. From 1971 to 1976, he served as political editor for the Atlanta Constitution and then worked in that position at the St. Raines was married in 1969 to Susan Woodley, whom he divorced in 1990. He also worked at WBRC-TV in Birmingham (1965–1967), the Tuscaloosa News (1968–69), and the Birmingham News (1970). Raines's first reporting job was with the Birmingham Post-Herald, and his first assignment was covering the 1964 Iron Bowl from the sidelines. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from Birmingham-Southern College in 1964 and received his master's degree in English from the University of Alabama in 1973. Raines was born Howell Hiram Raines on February 5, 1943, in Birmingham to Wattie Simeon and Bertha Estelle Walker Raines, the youngest of three siblings. Although he presided over an unprecedented period of award-winning work at the New York Times, Raines is most commonly associated with reporter Jayson Blair and his plagiarism scandal, which ultimately cost both men their jobs. Journalist Howell Raines's (1943- ) career took him from a position as a local Birmingham reporter to executive editor of the New York Times. ![]()
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