Brooks Blevins

Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author of five books, including Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State and Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South, both of which won the Arkansas Historical Society’s Ragsdale Award. He is also the author of Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image.