Samuel Charters (1929-2015) is the author of the award-winning The Roots of the Blues. He is also the author of A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz and coauthor of Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation, both from University Press of Mississippi. He was a Grammy-winning record producer, musician, poet, and fiction writer, and he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994.
