Brent Hendricks

American Author

About Hendricks

Brent Hendricks is the author of A Long Day at the End of the World: A Story of Desecration and Revelation in the Deep South (FSG/Originals), and a book of poems, Thaumatrope (Action Books). A graduate of Harvard Law School and the MFA Program at University of Arizona, he currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

“When Brent Hendricks’ book came across my desk, I was attracted to the elegiac cover design. When I discovered it was about the Tri-State Crematory scandal, my interest grew. But when I read Hendricks’ gorgeous prose, I was floored.”

Suzanne Van Atten, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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A Story of Desecration and Revelation in the Deep South

In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia,…

“Car radios blared in the night, generally pitting a gang in favor of Neil Young’s “Southern Man,” which chastised the South for its flagrant racism, against those who preferred Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” which chastised Neil Young for chastising the South and which praised the blatantly racist Alabama governor George Wallace.”

Brent Hendricks
A Long Day at the End of the World

Brent Hendricks