Katie Shands
Katie studied journalism in college and worked as a broadcast news producer after graduation. Her first novel Finding Franklin won a Janice Keck Literary Award and was published in early 2018.
Robert Hicks
Robert Hicks is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Widow of the South and resides in Franklin, TN.
Karen Kingsbury
Karen Kingsbury, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, is America’s favorite inspirational storyteller, with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Karen lives in Tennessee near five of their adult children.
Margie Gould Thessin
In 2008 Thessin also became a first-time author with “Ghosts of Franklin: Tennessee’s Most Haunted Town,” a book of ghost stories that expands on Franklin On Foot’s Haunted Franklin tour.
Tony L. Turnbow
Tony L. Turnbow has studied the history of the Old Natchez Trace for more than 30 years. He practices law in Franklin, Tennessee.
