David Stricklin

David Stricklin is a writer and historian, concentrating on southern music and religion. He grew up in a musical family in Cleburne, Texas, and attended Baylor University, where he was trained in oral history and public hisory. He received a Ph.D. in U.S. history at Tulane University under Bill C. Malone and taught history at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, before becoming director of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in Little Rock.