Keel Hunt is a prolific author and columnist. His column for the USA Today Network in Tennessee and he has authored four books on Tennessee political and business history. In his early career, Keel was a reporter, editor, Washington correspondent, and editorial writer, and from 1979 to 1986 he was Special Assistant to Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander.
Keel’s first book Coup, The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor of 2013 remains the definitive story of the 1979 ouster of Tennessee governor Ray Blanton. Next was Crossing the Aisle, How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the 21st Century and Could Save America in 2018. (Both Coup and Crossing the Aisle were published by Vanderbilt University Press). His third book, from West Margin Press in 2021, was The Family Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books and his fourth, also from West Margin in 2023, was A Sense of Justice: Judge Gilbert S. Merritt and His Times.
He enjoys his family, photography, and travel. Keel and his wife Marsha live in Nashville.
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