In The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge, nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson uses a parade of beloved dogs to take readers on a colorful journey. It's not really a dog book in the Old Yeller sense; it's a personal story that uses dogs as metaphors for love, loss, and life.
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Major Works
Hank Hung the Moon (2012)
Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)
Poor Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana (2008)
Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz (1989)
America’s Faces (1987)
They Didn’t Put That on the Huntley-Brinkley!: A Vagabond Reporter Encounters the New South (Hunter James and Rheta Grimsley Johnson, 1993)
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The award-winning reporter and columnist for AJC, now writes her witty, wise and poignant column once a week for King Features Syndicate.
Johnson travels the country in search of the stories, the voices and the spirit of ordinary Americans, frequently reporting from her native South, with datelines from Washington, D.C., to Iuka, Miss.
From 1980 until 1994, when she joined the Journal and Constitution, she was a reporter and columnist for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., and Scripps Howard News Service.
She has earned an impressive collection of awards for her writing, including the National Headliner Award for commentary in 1985 and Scripps Howard’s Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for outstanding human-interest reporting in 1984. She was Scripps Howard Writer of the Year from 1983 to 1985. And in 1991, she was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
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