A Night at the Sweet Gum Head by Martin Padgett

Norton in 2021.Īwards 2003 International Wheel Award Winners His nonfiction book about Atlanta's LGBTQ civil rights movement, A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution, will be published by W.W. He was named a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow for nonfiction. He earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. He also worked for AutoTrader before taking on the editorial duties at The Car Connection. Īfter a short turn in public relations at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama, Padgett moved to Atlanta, where he began writing for publications including Details, Men's Health, Stuff, and AutoWeek. He also appeared on several national radio television programs including CNN's TalkBack Live and Fox Morning News. He edited the news section in Car and Driver magazine for five years and wrote road tests. Norton published Padgett’s book A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution.Marty Padgett is a United States based journalist, and the editorial director of Internet Brands Automotive's The Car Connection, Motor Authority, and Green Car Reports.īorn in 1969, Padgett is a native of Washington, D.C., and grew up in southern Maryland before going to college at Duke University (history, '91, with honors) and moving to Michigan.

The following year, he was named a Lambda Literary Fellow. Padgett earned his Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Nonfiction writing from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2018. He has since written for such publications as The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, and Men’s Health, and worked as Editorial Director in the automotive group Internet Brands, an online media company. In 1997, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and began his career as a freelance writer and journalist. He later took a job in public relations for Mercedes-Benz in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduating from Duke University in 1991, Padgett relocated to Michigan, where he worked as an editor for Car and Driver, an automotive magazine. He graduated from Oxon Hill High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland, in 1987 and attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Martin Padgett (1969- ) was born in Brandywine, Maryland, to Martin (1942- ) and Barbara Padgett (1946- ).

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head by Martin Padgett