Richard Jay Hutto

Rick Hutto served as White House Appointments Secretary to the Carter family and was chairman of the Georgia Council for the Arts. One of the foremost historians of the Gilded Age, he wrote Crowning Glory: American Wives of Princes and Dukes, and Their Gilded Cage: The Jekyll Island Club Members. He is a frequent international lecturer and one of his books, A Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder and Madness in the Heart of Georgia, was adapted for television.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called that book, "A southern grotesque that comes complete with stately mansions, murder most vile, forbidden sex, a pot-boiling trial and a denouement worthy of a Greek tragedy [with] an ending that even Sophocles wouldn't wish on his worst enemy." November 3, 2010. He is a regular contributor to Royalty Digest Quarterly.