About the Author

Julie Hedgepeth Williams is a journalism professor at Samford University. She received a BA in English and history from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and a Masters in Journalism and a PhD in Mass Communications from the University of Alabama.

Reviews

A Rare Titanic Family is a rare work indeed. Ms. Williams has taken a seemingly ordinary family and not only describes in detail their experiences in the worst sea disaster of their era, but also describes the fascinating and unusual circumstances which led them to be on board the Titanic, carefully analyzing any variations in her sources. She then follows up with an equally interesting study of their lives afterward and how they were personally affected by the sinking. This is an unusual look at the private lives of three people who faced death on the North Atlantic, and survived to tell the tale.--Don Lynch, former vice president of the Titanic Historical Society "author of Titanic: An Illustrated History and Ghosts of the Abyss"

A Rare Titanic Family, by Julie Hedgepeth Williams, is the gripping story of the survival of the Caldwell family during the tragic sinking of the Titanic. It is beautifully told by Albert Caldwell's great-niece Julie Williams.--Lee Thursby "Christian Science Monitor"

Julie Williams has an uncanny ability to take your hand and make you fly with her to times past as you read her prose. You hear the music in church, you hear the rustle of the dresses shown in numerous original photographs, you feel the chilly air on your face when she describes the night setting on the doomed ship. More, much more than just a survival story, A Rare Titanic Family is a gem.-- "Roger-Wilco"

A Rare Titanic Family is a one-of-a-kind biography of a rarely heard story of that sinking ship.-- "Midwest Book Review"