While Grizzard made fun of others, he joked about himself the most. His friend, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, once called him a “smart-ass white boy,” which Lewis loved so much that he ...

While Grizzard made fun of others, he joked about himself the most. His friend, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, once called him a “smart-ass white boy,” which Lewis loved so much that he ...

If Lewis Grizzard had lived, he would be 70. But he didn't. He died from complications after his fourth heart surgery at Emory Hospital in Atlanta on March 20, 1994. The next day newspapers kept ...

Lewis Grizzard (1946-1994) Journalist, humorist, and author Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr., was born in Fort Benning, Georgia. Following his parents’ divorce, Grizzard and his mother, Christine ...

In “It Wasn’t Always Easy, But I Sure Had Fun”, (1994- Villard Books- New York) Lewis Grizzard Jr. proudly wrote about his ...

Lewis Grizzard, whose down-home humor in columns and books such as Daddy Was a Pistol and I'm a Son of a Gun delighted and sometimes enraged readers, died Sunday. He was 47.

We buried Lewis Grizzard 20 years ago. It doesn't seem possible, does it? That it has been that long? A lot of people accuse me of trying to be another Grizzard. Those people are wrong, for a numb… ...

I miss Lewis Grizzard. Of course, I fully understand if anyone reading this column under the age of 40 might exclaim, “Who is Lewis Grizzard?” Perhaps the title of one of his humorous books ...

Lewis Grizzard on Fear Lewis Grizzard. Longstreet Press, $6.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-929264-21-9 ``I held out against airplanes for years, but finally the travel demands of my profession forced me to ...