Michael Andrew Grissom

Michael Andrew Grissom, recipient of the Oklahoma Heritage Distinguished Service Award and the United Daughters of the Confederacy's prestigious Jefferson Davis Medal, is the author of thirteen books. In 1996, he wrote the inscription for Tennessee's Confederate Monument in Vicksburg National Military Park, and in 2004 he wrote the inscription for the Confederate Monument in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. He has earned two degrees from the University of Oklahoma and has lived in both Tennessee and Oklahoma. His first book, Southern By the Grace of God, is recognized as the first modern defense of the South's culture and heritage.