Author's Profile

PETER D. TATTERSALL

FULL NAME: Peter Dorsch Tattersall

AGE: 67

BIRTHPLACE: Staunton,Virginia

EDUCATION: Staunton Military Academy; Virginia Military Institute,’62 (academic casualty, junior year; returned ‘63-’65 as sports information director, golf coach.)

BEST JOBS: Sportswriter Richmond Times Dispatch; thoroughbred trainer.

PROUDEST JOB ACCOMPLISHMENT: First book; CONVICTION (1980).

FAVORITE AUTHORS: (Deceased) Willie Morris & Walker Percy & Shelby Foote.

FAVORITE AUTHORS: (Active) James Lee Burke, Lee Child, Pat Conroy & John Connelly)

FAVORITE BOOK (Nonfiction): North Toward Home (Willie Morris);

FAVORITE BOOKS (Fiction): The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway); Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry); To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee).

FAVORITE PASTIME: Big Fire, Great Mystery and Sweet Nell all at once.

FAMILY: Wife of 17 years, Janell Arnold Beattie of Hollins College and Greenville, SC.; Son (16) Thomas, a wonderful golfer with an unlimited future on the links; Daughter Nolan (35) mother of five, Wilson(9), Lillie(7), Davis(5), Caroline(3) and Kate(1); New Orleans; husband Chip Grant, heart specialist at Ochners Hospital; son Peter, Jr. (37) entertainment editor Sun Herald, Gulfport, Miss.; Staff awarded Putlizer Prize for Journalism for reporting during Hurricane Katrina. Peter and wife Heather also live in Uptown New Orleans.

FAVORITE PLACES LIVED: Staunton, Virginia; Aiken, SC; New Orleans, & KELLS, (Co. Kilkenny, Ire.)

FAVORITE RESTURANTS: Doe’s Eat Place, Greenville, Miss; Mosca’s, New Orleans; Casamentos, New Orleans; Inn at Little Washington, (Va.).

FAVORITE DISH: Veal Piccata & Arancini (Mosca’s, NO)

FAVORITE BARS: Tujaques (NO); Napoleon House (NO); Molly’s at the Market (NO); Marino’s (Staunton).

FAVORITE SPORTS TEAMS: Washington Nationals & Tampa Bay Devil Rays; anything VMI and the Saints.

GREATEST ATHLETIC HERO: Arnold Palmer & Mickey Vernon.

FAVORITE SAINTS: St. Blaze, St. Christopher, & Archie Manning.

POLITICAL HEROS: Huey Long; Edward Edwards and Michael Collins (Ire.)

HOBBIES: Horse Racing, Golf, 20th Century Art (British Sporting & Post Civil War Southern) and Cooking.

PET PEEVES: Conservative Republicans; Poor Manners and Loud Noises.