Alice Bryant Byrd

Alice Bryant Byrd was born in Summersville, West Virginia, in 1960. Her first book "SUMMERSVILLE" tells the story of the Bryant family's involvement in local politics, including their social and financial rise and fall. William Bryant, her father, was a WWII naval pilot and hero, and he put his considerable resourcefulness and charm to work to help Summersville develop into a thriving tourist mecca. This story covers a range of topics from small-town politics to addiction and adoption. Mayor Bryant was friends with Senator Robert Byrd, one of the longest serving members of Congress, and he even managed to get President Lyndon Johnson to come to town for a visit.

Alice got her MBA from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, started her banking career in Texas in the mid-1980s, was a bank examiner for many years for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and finished her career in financial services with almost fifteen years at Bank of America.

She now writes full-time and although she enjoys writing nonfiction, she has also begun to dabble in fiction with some works in progress. Alice lives in Concord, North Carolina, with her husband Emmett, who has enjoyed a long career in many capacities of NASCAR racing. They have three dogs and a cat, and her ninety-four-year-old father lives nearby.