Wayne McCray

Wayne McCray was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1965, and grew up in the Windy City until 1984. He attended Southern University A and M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earning a BA and MA in Social Studies. He has always had a passion for tall tales and the oral histories of everyday people, especially those told within his family, in how they saw and dealt with an irrational world. He currently lives in Itta Bena, Mississippi, enjoying country life, with his adopted dog Beaux and his three grandchildren.

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