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Elliott Mackle
Elliott Mackle served four years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, achieving the rank of captain. He was stationed in California, Italy and Libya, the latter t...view moreElliott Mackle served four years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, achieving the rank of captain. He was stationed in California, Italy and Libya, the latter the setting for Captain Harding and His Men (2012) and the multiple-award-winning Captain Harding’s Six-Day War (2011). Welcome Home, Captain Harding completes the Joe Harding trilogy. Hot off the Presses (2010), a romantic exposé of the racial and sexual politics surrounding the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, is based in part on Mackle’s decade as a writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.The newspaper’s dining critic, he also reported on military affairs, travel and the national restaurant scene. He has written for Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, Los Angeles Times, Florida Historical Quarterly, Atlanta and Charleston magazines and was a longtime columnist at Creative Loafing, the South’s leading alternative newsweekly. Mackle wrote and produced segments for Nathalie Dupree’s popular television series, New Southern Cooking, and wrote for Public Television. Along the way, he managed a horse farm, served as a child nutrition advocate for the State of Georgia, volunteered at an AIDS shelter, was founding co-chair of Emory University’s GLBT alumni association and taught critical and editorial writing at Georgia State University. He lives in Atlanta.view less