Ben Guest interviews Steve Suitts, author of “What’s In a Family Name: A Southern Family History Becomes a Gothic Mystery”

SUMMARY: Steve Suitts was seventy-two years old when he tracked down his grandfather’s birth certificate and discovered his grandfather had died eighteen months before his father was born. What follows, in his new memoir, What’s In A Family Name: A Southern Family History Becomes a Gothic Mystery, is a detective story as Suitts traces his […]

Ben Guest

Ben Guest holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from the University of Southern California. His 2021 memoir, Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: Memoir of a Namibian Odyssey, hit #1 on several Amazon categories. He has a weekly newsletter about writing and creativity at benbo.subtsack.com.