Phil Hudgins

Phil Hudgins worked more than half a century in the newspaper business, retiring as news training officer for a couple dozen papers owned by Community Newspapers Inc. of Athens, Georgia. He is a 1964 graduate of the University of Georgia and a 1974 Nieman Fellow of Harvard University. Hudgins has co-authored two other books: Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia (2018), and I Took the Fork (2008), a memoir of journalist/philanthropist Lessie...See more

Phil Hudgins worked more than half a century in the newspaper business, retiring as news training officer for a couple dozen papers owned by Community Newspapers Inc. of Athens, Georgia. He is a 1964 graduate of the University of Georgia and a 1974 Nieman Fellow of Harvard University. Hudgins has co-authored two other books: Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia (2018), and I Took the Fork (2008), a memoir of journalist/philanthropist Lessie Smithgall. He and his wife Shirley have two daughters, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. See less