Frank G. Carter, Jr. is a North Carolina-born writer who shares stories from his youth and young adulthood growing up in the small community of Ruffin, North Carolina. His work is centered on a period in time when politics served to enrich lives rather than to be a point of division, He graduated from Ruffin High School in 1968, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1977. His undergraduate degree is in Radio-Television-Motion Pictures and his master's degree is in Speech Communication. Carter makes his home in Wilmington, North Carolina after having spent his working years in media and in education. Most recently, he chaired the Department of Humanities and Fine Arts at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, N.C. He is the father of four children and has been married to Deborah Stengel Carter, M.D. since 2006.In the spring of 2024, Carter will publish a second edition of "The Lyrics of My Life," the collection of poetry from his 72 years observing current affairs and people's reactions to them. In his spare time, Carter is a voracious reader of 19th and. 20th Century world literature.Read more about this authorRead less about this author