A Handful of Thumbs and Two Left Feet: Sam Venable's best outdoor stories - Paperback
A Handful of Thumbs and Two Left Feet: Sam Venable's best outdoor stories - Paperback
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by Sam Venable (Author)
Four decades of hilarious, and yet at times poignant, outdoor stories by Sam Venable, the award-winning humor columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Author Biography
Sam Venable, b. 1947, is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a B.S. degree in journalism and minor in forestry and wildlife management. He has enjoyed a long career with daily newspapers in Tennessee. Since 1970, he has been with the Knoxville News Sentinel, first as outdoors editor, later (1985) changing to general interest-humor columnist. The author of eleven books, he is the winner of more than three dozen local, state and national writing awards. Venable is widely known throughout Southern Appalachia as a standup comedian, often appearing in the "Talk Is Cheap" comedy tour with fellow entertainers Bill Landry, Jim Claborn and Elizabeth Rose. He and his wife Mary Ann, a UT graduate now retired from many years in software instruction, live in a log house on the outskirts of Knoxville. They are parents of two adult children and two grandchildren.
