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Ferrol Sams

Ferrol Sams has been a very influential author and continues to do so in his life. From humble beginnings he started and is what helped him to master the skills he now has. He has created many fantastic books ranging from novels to short stories, to even biographies. This man was an altogether intelligent person to be able to have gone to a medical college, gotten a degree, and still have plenty of time left over to write stories. He truly represents to all “southerness” at its finest. Ferrol Sams is a very influential author of his time who set out and attained many things. Sams was born September 26, 1922 in the Sams family house originally built by his great grandfather. He traces his ancestry back six generations to James Sams who originally settled in Fayette County of rural Georgia in 1820. After 2 quarters of medical school Sams went over seas to help the war effort. He was a good enough student to make it all the way into medical school and become a physician. For his medical training he attended Emory University, a very prestigious school in the south; it was at this school that he met his future wife. Once he and his wife Helen were married, they opened up private physician’s offices and eventually would found the Fayette medical center. At age sixty Sams began to write, and eventually publish, the first of his almost biography adventures featuring a young man named Porter Osborne Jr. This book originally started as an autobiography of his childhood but instead he decided to use his creativity to spice it all up. He continued to write in this “biography” series using his experiences that he gained by living in rural Fayette County. He originally wanted to share about his childhood with his grandchildren by making these biographies. After finishing the second of Porter’s adventures Sams couldn’t think of anything else to write so he began his nonfictional writing. His first two nonfiction writings were about life in the south and being a southerner. Sam’s latest novel was 2007’s Down Town: The Journal of James Aloysius Holcombe. Sam’s was naturally an intellectual but creative at the same time kind of person and, combined with his southern childhood, created many fantastic stories.

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