Jerry Ellis (born 1947) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction works best known for the book ''
Walking the Trail'' written after he walked the 900 mile route of the
Cherokee
The Cherokee (; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern ...
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the " Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their black slaves within that were ethnically cleansed by the U ...
.
Ellis has been profiled and his books reviewed in several national and regional publications and on public television.
Biography
Jerry Ellis was born in
Fort Payne, Alabama
Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, in northeastern Alabama, United States. It is near Lookout Mountain. At the 2020 census, the population was 14,877.
This city developed around a fort of the same name, built in the 183 ...
. He is the brother of actress Sandra Ellis Lafferty. He graduated from the
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, the Capstone, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of ...
in 1970. In 1989 he was the first person in the modern world to walk the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Ellis lives in both Fort Payne, Alabama, and in Rome, Italy. Ellis is the co-founder of Tanager House, an artist retreat set on 200 wooded acres in the mountains of north Alabama, where he leads workshops on writing/publishing, spirituality, self-actualization.
Bibliography
*''
Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears'' (1991);
*''Bareback! One Man's Journey Along the Pony Express Trail'' (1993)
*''On the Trail of the Pony Express'' (2002)
*''Marching through Georgia: My Walk along Sherman's Route'' (2002)
*''Walking to Canterbury: A Modern Journey Through Chaucer's Medieval England'' (2007)
*''Ciao From Roma! Spring in the Eternal City of Love'' with Paolo Canova (2012)
*''CHEROKEE HISTORY FOR INDIAN LOVERS'' (2013)
*''Native American Thriller--Parts One and Two'' (2013,2014)
*''TWO WOLVES, A Cherokee's Journey to Feed the Sacred One'' (2014)
References
External links
Image of Jerry Ellis Author's Den
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1947 births
Living people
American male writers