A Shallow River of Mercy

Robert Hays has been a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, public relations writer, political campaign manager, and university professor and administrator. A native of Illinois, he taught in Texas and Missouri and retired in 2008 from a long journalism teaching career at the University of Illinois. He has spent a great deal of time in South Carolina, the home state of his wife, Mary, and was a member of the South Carolina Writers Workshop. His publications include academic journal and popular periodical articles and eleven books, including his collaborative work with General Oscar Koch, G-2: Intelligence for Patton. Robert and Mary live in Champaign, Illinois.