Charles B. Fancher is the author of the historical novel RED CLAY, set in southern Alabama in the years following the Civil War. He is a writer and editor, and a former senior corporate communications executive for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He has also been a journalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Detroit Free Press, and a publicist for the ABC Television Network. Fancher was previously a member of the School of Communications faculty at Howard University and the adjunct faculty at Temple University. He lives in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.