Coming Home to A Familiar Place

The auditorium of the historic Douglass Theatre where the author once saved the life of the Lone Ranger. Photo Credits © 2019 Cascade Publishing House

I begin the preamble of my memoir, Freaknik Lawyer: A Memoir on the Craft of Resistance with a quote from Tom Wolfe’s character, Captain Charlie, in A Man in Full. Tom Wolfe visited Atlanta in the late 1990s to research his novel about Southern power and privilege and a Freaknik lawyer.

Tom Wolf interviewed more than 100 people in Atlanta for background material. He did not come by The Harvey Law Firm to…