Ted Dunagan is the author of “A Yellow Watermelon,” for which he was named Georgia Author of the Year for Young Adult literature this year at the Georgia Writers' Association banquet. “A Yellow Watermelon” explores poverty and racial segregation in Alabama in 1948 through the eyes of an innocent boy.
Dunagan was born in 1943 in rural southwestern Alabama. He attended Georgia State University and served for three years in the Army as a member of the 101st Airborne Division and Special Forces Training Group. Dunagan is now retired after a career in the cosmetics and fragrance industry.

He writes features and columns for The Monticello News in Monticello, Ga., where he lives with his wife.

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