George U.

I was born and grew up in Milan, Tennessee, which is roughly halfway between Memphis and Nashville. My father, an attorney and judge, died when I was 12. My eldest brother had already moved on and the second, eldest son left soon thereafter on a full scholarship to Vanderbilt University. Thereafter, my mother, our high school English teacher, raised me and my disabled sister (Turner's Syndrome). Mother was from a broken home and, in her day, the options were working for one's husband,…