ArtsATL: Partners in the arts: wordsmiths Ralph Ellis and Susan Puckett

“Together, they have spilled vats of ink. Ralph Ellis and Susan Puckett are old-school newspaper people who made the transition to books. Ellis recently became a first-time novelist at age 72 when he published The Accident Report, following Ronald Truluck, a stoner reporter for a small-town paper trying to uncover a scandal in the spirit of Watergate. Before the novel, Ellis was a working journalist for about 50 years with newspapers around the Southeast, including 21 years at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and for news websites such as CNN.” 

“His wife, Puckett, was the AJC’s food editor for nearly two decades before writing her 2013 cookbook/travelogue, Eat Drink Delta, a Hungry Traveler’s Journey Through the Soul of the South, which the Georgia Center of the Book named one of 10 books every Georgian should read. Since then, she’s focused on helping others write their books, including Root to Leaf: A Southern Chef Cooks Through the Seasons with Miller Union’s Steven Satterfield; and Turnip Greens & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up the Southern Kitchen with Taqueria del Sol’s Eddie Hernandez.”