Best Historian

Author and former Scene contributor Betsy Phillips has an encyclopedic knowledge of Tennessee and Southern history, which is cool in and of itself. But what makes Phillips so great is her ability to craft these facts into captivating stories. Her passion for the weird, wacky, sad and sordid history of our region is so infectious that anyone within earshot (or with a Twitter account — find her at @AuntB) is pulled into her world. When she’s not investigating Nashville’s midcentury white supremicist bombings for her upcoming book Dynamite Nashville, she writes short stories (see A City of Ghosts and Jesus Crawdad Death), dyes and spins her own yarn, and crochets blankets that double as stunning works of art. MEGAN SELING

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