![Ken Wells](https://www.muw.edu/welty/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2022/09/kwells_lg.jpg)
author of Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou
Friday, October 11, 2:50 p.m.
Ken Wells grew up in Louisiana on the banks of Bayou Black. He wrote as a journalist for the Miami Herald, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News. He has also written the novels Meely LaBauve, Junior’s Leg, Logan’s Storm, Crawfish Mountain, and Rascal, a Dog and His Boy, as well as nonfiction Travels with Barley, The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous, and Gumbo Life.
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