Jerry Ellis TOPICS: Motivation Inspiration Education Change Native American FEE CATEGORY:* 5.0k to 10.0k TRAVELS FROM: Alabama Video Profile Program Outlines Testimonials/Client List Books & Videos Request This Speaker

Jerry Ellis: Profile

Jerry Ellis has written for the New York Times, had four non-fiction books published by Random House and has been a speaker/consultant throughout the United States, Asia, Europe and Africa. A graduate of the University of Alabama, he speaks English, Spanish and Italian. Five of his plays have been produced, and he has received grants from the National Endowments for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He is the co-founder of Tanager Retreat International: A Place to Embrace the Extraordinary in Life, Business and Art.

Of Cherokee and Scottish heritage, Ellis was the very first person in modern history to walk the 900-mile Cherokee Trail of Tears. His book about that journey, Walking the Trail, One Man’s Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, was published in 1991 by Delacorte Press. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and in print for fifteen years, the book has sold over 250,000 copies. A Native American classic, it is required reading in some US high schools and colleges. Published in both German and English, it was anthologized by the publisher Norton In Short: Brief Creative Non-Fiction and in Travelers’ Tales America. Readers Digest highlighted it in Quotable Quote and it is noted in Toastmasters International.

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