Batt Humphreys
Batt Humphreys spent 15 years at CBS News in New York, the majority as a senior producer. He managed the coverage of many events that shaped recent history, including the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Humphreys, a Georgia native, returned to his beloved South in 2007, settling in Charleston, South Carolina. His debut novel, Dead Weight, was inspired by one of the city’s century-old trials, and earned an Independent Publisher Award and the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award for best work of historical fiction.