Book discussion on Wallace Carroll with Al Hunt & Mary McNeil

September 29, 2022

Al Hunt, Wake Forest Life Trustee, and author Mary Llewellyn McNeil will be discussing her new book “Century’s Witness, the Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll” at the Forsyth County Central Library on Monday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m.

Wallace Carroll was the Samuel J. Ervin professor of Constitutional Rights at Wake Forest from 1974-1984. He was also one of the most respected and influential journalists of his time. Carroll ended his career as editor of the “Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel,” where he led the paper to a Pulitzer Prize (1971), covered the demise of the tobacco industry and the de-segregation of schools and played an active role in the creation of the NC School of the Arts.

A large part of the book deals with his time at Wake Forest and in Winston-Salem.

“Wallace Carroll was a man of great charm and intelligence as well as a great twentieth-century journalist reporting on some of the most critical moments in American history,” said Wake Forest Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson.

The event is free and open to the public.