Scott Freeman

About

Scott Freeman is the author of four books, including the best-selling Midnight Riders: The Story of the Allman Brothers Band (Little, Brown & Co., 1995) and the critically-acclaimed Otis! The Otis Redding Story (St. Martin’s Press, 2001).Billboard magazine said Midnight Riders is “an absolutely riveting book that reads as compellingly as a novel.” Said Publisher’s Weekly of Otis!: “Freeman, whose excellent Midnight Riders explored the Allman Brothers’ revolutionary Southern rock, has produced another well-written, expertly researched and culturally sensitive chapter in the history of Southern popular music.”Freeman began his career at the Macon Telegraph & News, where he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He was the editor-in-chief of Las Vegas Life magazine, executive editor of Atlanta magazine and senior editor at Creative Loafing, Atlanta’s alt-weekly. His work also has appeared in Media Week, Guitar World, Budget Living, Las Vegas Weekly and Arthritis Today.His story on a collegiate football star who committed suicide received an award for Best Feature Story from the Football Writers Association of America, in addition to a prestigious Green Eyeshade Award from Sigma Delta Chi. He received a second Green Eyeshade Award for a story in Atlanta magazine about Eric Robert Rudolph’s run from justice.He is Editor-in-Chief of Atlanta magazine.