Notorious Memphis Gangster Diggs Nolen

Patrick O'Daniel is the executive director of Library Services for Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has a master's degree in history from the University of Memphis and a master's degree in library/information sciences from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey: Prohibition in Memphis (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018), When the Levee Breaks: Memphis and the Mississippi Valley Flood of 1927 (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013) and Memphis and the Superflood of 1937 (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010) and coauthor of Historic Photos of Memphis (Nashville, TN: Turner, 2006) with Gina Cordell.