Clarke County
Author
Ted M. Dunagan grew up in rural south western Alabama. His young adult novels A Yellow
Watermelon, Street of The Satilfa, and Trouble on the Tombigbee
earned him the 2009, 2011, and 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Awards. A Yellow
Watermelon was also named to the inaugural “25 Books All Young Georgians Should
Read” list compiled by the Georgia Center for the Book; Trouble on the Tombigbee
also won the Frank Yerby Award for fiction. Dunagan lives in Monticello,
Georgia,
where he writes news, features, and a weekly column for the Monticello News. He
is working on a fifth book in the Ted and Poudlum series.