Rex Nelson, senior editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Karen E. Segrave)
Rex Nelson writes three columns a week and essays for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Sunday Perspective section. He’s the author of three books — the first full-length biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a biography of Arkansas educator Ben Elrod and a collection of his essays on Arkansas. He’s also the author of a popular blog known as Rex Nelson’s Southern Fried.
Nelson served for almost a decade as the policy and communications director for Gov. Mike Huckabee and then served for four years as one of George W. Bush’s two appointees to the Delta Regional Authority. He has been inducted into the Arkansas Sportscasters & Sportswriters Hall of Fame.