W. Ralph Eubanks is an American author, journalist, professor, public speaker, and business executive. From 1995 until May 2013 he was the Director of Publishing of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In June 2013 he became the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review at the University of Virginia. He has served as an advisor and adjunct professor on staff at the University of Virginia and George Mason University. In 2007, he was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, in recognition of his published memoir, Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past, which Washington Post literary critic Jonathan Yardley named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003. [More at Wikipedia]

June 25th, 1957 in Mount Olive (Age 67)