Chattanooga Writers Guild
Chattanooga Writers Guild
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The first dues paying member of the Chattanooga Writers Guild, was born in 1942 at Chickamauga, Georgia. He grew up in a nearby north Georgia neighborhood known locally as “Hells’ Holler.” At the tender age of fourteen he left home with his cousin, bound for Los Angeles, where he joined the US Navy at age fifteen using a forged birth certificate. The following year he married childhood friend and sweetheart Shirley Jo Perkins securing her immediate escape from the holler. They were lovers, friends and co-workers for the next forty years until Shirley unexpectedly suffered a fatal heart attack. He and Shirley were blessed with three children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Born with an affinity for writing, Noel has practiced writing in one form or another for his entire life. During his life-time career as a labor leader, he edited and published three different union publications; The Express, circulation 5000, 1978-1991, The Unionist, circulation 1500, 1991-1996, and United We Stand, circulation 90,000, 1994-1996. He retired and moved to the country in 1996 after serving three decades as an elected officer of the Teamsters union. His plans to write fiction and memoirs upon his retirement were delayed by the untimely loss of Shirley, but after four years he has sat down to hammer out his first fiction novel which he hopes to complete in 2004. He and Reba Olsen, also a member of the Chattanooga Writers Guild, are now engaged to be married.
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Noel Logan