Chet Wallace was born in Louisiana and has grown up loving music and history. At the age of fourteen he moved with his parents from Louisiana to Florida and then moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 2002, which he was thrilled about because of the Civil War history that exists in the area. Through learning more about Atlanta he did research on it's history and found out about the Winecoff Hotel fire of 1946. He was hooked on the subject from then on and has published his first book about the victims of this tragic fire. Mr. Wallace lives in the Atlanta area and owns his own business teaching piano and guitar lessons and is a writer of Atlanta history as well.