Walton Beacham was born on August 29, 1956, in Indianola, Mississippi. After earning a B.S. at Georgia Tech, then a B.A. and M.A. at Georgia State University, Beecham earned his M.F.A. at the University of Arkansas’s writing program. Following a brief tenure as a professor of creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University, Beacham founded Beacham Publishing in 1985. Notable titles published by the press include several editions of the Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (1985), the Research Guide to American Historical Biography (1991), and handbooks detailing subjects ranging from extinct animals to lobbyists. Beacham is also a prolific novelist and playwright. Recent projects include I Am Barbie (2011), a play which explores themes of body image issues and breast cancer through its eponymous protagonist, and the American Lovers in Peril Abroad series of novels.
#1: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Walton Beacham at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#2: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Walton Beacham at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#3: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Walton Beacham at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
