Brooks Eason

Brooks Eason has written seven books. His first, Travels with Bobby, is about hiking trips in the mountains of the West with his best friend. Fortunate Son, his memoir about his adoption as an infant and discovery of his birth mother’s identity when he was nearly fifty, was a finalist for best nonfiction work by a Mississippi author in 2020. Bedtime with Buster consists entirely of conversations between Brooks and his dearly departed dog and includes more than thirty wonderful illustrations of Buster by Atlanta artist Bob Fugate. Redemption is a novel based on the life of Brooks’s grandfather, who was a fugitive and felon in the first half of his life and a gifted Methodist preacher in the second. The Scoutmaster is the story of the wonderful life of Brooks's father, who served as a Boy Scout leader for more than sixty years and was an extraordinary influence on three generations of young men in his hometown. Trigger Warning consists of more than eighty stories from Brooks's legal career, beginning when he began law school at Duke and ending when he settled his last case. His most recent, I Remember Everything, is a novel about a friendship that lasts fifty-five years, an unspeakable tragedy, grand adventures, and the music of John Prine.

Brooks retired after forty years practicing law to a life of walking dogs and writing books. He has three children and five grandchildren and lives in Madison, Mississippi, with his wife Carrie, three rescue dogs, and an orange tabby cat . In their spare time, Brooks and Carrie host house concerts and dance in the kitchen.