About Robert Inman
Novelist, screenwriter and playwright Robert Inman is a native of Elba, Alabama where he began his writing career in junior high school with his hometown weekly newspaper. He left a 31-year career in journalism in June, 1996 to devote full time to writing.
Inman is the author of four novels, all published by Little, Brown and Company: Home Fires Burning (1987), Old Dogs and Children (1991), Dairy Queen Days (1997), and Captain Saturday (2002).
Three of his novels were chosen as "Booksense 76" feature recommendations by independent book dealers nationwide. Three received the “Outstanding Fiction Award” from the Alabama Library Association. All remain in print.
Down Home Press published a collection of his non-fiction work, Coming Home: Life, Love and All Things Southern, in October, 2000.
Inman’s first stage play, the musical comedy “Crossroads,” had its world premiere in June, 2003 at Blowing Rock Stage Company, a professional theatre in Blowing Rock, NC, and is being produced by other theatres nationwide. Inman wrote the book, music and lyrics for “Crossroads.” His holiday play, “The Christmas Bus,” premiered at Blowing Rock Stage Company in December, 2003. Both plays are published by Dramatic Publishing Company.
Inman’s stage adaptation of his novel Dairy Queen Days will receive its world premier at Blowing Rock Stage Company in October, 2006. A musical version of “The Christmas Bus” will premier at Children’s Theatre of Charlotte in December, 2006, coinciding with the September publication of an illustrated book version of the story by Novello Festival Press of Charlotte.
He has written screenplays for six motion pictures for television, two of which have been “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentations. His script for The Summer of Ben Tyler, a Hallmark production, won the Writers’ Guild of America Award as the best original television screenplay of 1997. His other Hallmark feature was Home Fires Burning, a 1989 adaptation of his novel.
Inman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The University of Alabama with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. He is a member of the Authors Guild, Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild, PEN American Center, North Carolina Writers Conference, North Carolina Writers Network, and Alabama Writers Forum.
Inman and his wife, Paulette, live in Charlotte and Boone, North Carolina. They have two daughters: Mrs. Larkin Ferris of Boone; and Mrs. Lee Farabaugh of Birmingham, AL.
