King Cotton

Richard Allan “Rick” Noble spent most of his career in publishing, although not as an author.

Always a history buff, Rick became interested in the Civil War when he lived in Louisville, Kentucky. Several readers of initial drafts of King Cotton suggested that it must have been difficult weaving a story through so many facts, real people, and actual places, dates, and events during that impossibly difficult chapter in America’s past. But Rick found the opposite. He knew the story he wanted t...