Noel Holston

Noel Holston is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist, a songwriter, storyteller and photographer from Laurel, Mississippi, who published his acclaimed 2019 memoir, "Life After Deaf" (Skyhorse Books), after spending almost a decade battling back from a catastrophic overnight hearing loss. Three cochlear implant operations and extensive therapy ultimately restored his conversational hearing, though not his pitch. That didn't stop him from completing his first CD, "Better Late," in 2021 with help from his wife, singer Marty Winkler, and friends from their adopted hometown, music-rich Athens, Ga. Noel's latest book is "As I Die Laughing," a memoir of his "free range" Deep South childhood.