Writer of Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Master Photographer
By Michael K. Brantley Two convicted murderers met their fate on the gallows in Nash County’s last public hanging on March 15, 1900. The story of John Henry Taylor and Robert Fortune and the murder of Robert Hester is a tragic one. All that end in capital punishment are. It’s also a story of mistaken…
“As the author’s research reveals the journey of his great-great-grandfather across Nash County and battlefields of the Civil War, Michael K. Brantley discovers that exploring the past reveals the explored but changes the explorer. A worthy literary effort!” —Wade G. Dudley, author of Remembering North Carolina and Splintering the Wooden Wall I was honored to get this quote…
By Michael K. Brantley There is some interesting art that often gets overlooked — in post offices across the country. These are big murals that were painted mostly in the 1930s and 40s. I’d always heard these were done by the WPA, but a little digging revealed they were actually commissioned by the Treasury Department’s…
At long last, my book has arrived. Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate took years to research, interrupted by a liver transplant among other life events. But, it was a lot of fun working on it and I’m excited for you to read it. Basically, I was looking information about my ancestors for…