Grif Stockley
Author and Race Relations HistorianGrif Stockley is an award-winning author, groundbreaking historian and successful playwright who writes extensively on race relations in Arkansas.
Stockley's nonfiction chronicles the history of race relations in Arkansas and unflinchingly confronts what he calls the state's "legacy of relentless white supremacy." His latest play, "Truth! Reconciliation?," which had its world premiere on a Little Rock stage in 2009, further explores this theme. 
Six novels published in the 1990's and early part of this decade, which Stockley terms "lawyer mysteries," are deftly written accounts of murder, intrigue and courtroom surprise - all concocted with measurable doses of wry humor, healthy cynicism and memorable characterizations. LITIGATION
Throughout his long career as an attorney with the Center for Arkansas Legal Services, the Disability Rights Center and the Arkansas branch of the ACLU, Stockley championed through litigation the rights of juveniles, gays, foster parents and the mentally and physically disabled. Praise for Grif Stockley's Works"Mr. Stockley is a talented writer. The frustrations of a desperate solo practice are delightfully portrayed - the wacky clients, the airhead secretary, the unpaid bills, the hatred for big law firms." -- John Grisham, in The New York Times Book Review "Grif Stockley . . . has deeply enriched our understanding not only of America's violent racist past, but also of the challenges which that history poses for the future." -- William M. Tuttle, Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 "I thought I knew a lot about race in Arkansas from my years as a reporter when race and politics were big issues. I knew nothing." -- Roy Reed, author and former New York Times reporter "[His works are] remarkable for their honest treatment of white supremacy. Stockley confronts the subject without apology or equivocation." -- Wendell Griffen, former judge of Arkansas Court of Appeals "Grif Stockley . . . deepens our knowledge of the psycho-dynamics of white supremacy." -- David Levering Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author |
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