From Bunkie to Baton Rouge, from Aggies to Cajuns, Smiley Anders reaps the harvest of Louisiana humor and sets it on the table for his readers six days a week.
He and his wife Katherine live in a 1922 home in Spanish Town, Baton Rouge\'\'s oldest neighborhood.. degrees in journalism from Louisiana State University. and M.
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A native of Natchez, Miss., he received B.
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For his business reporting, he was named the first Communicator of the Year in 1975 by the Public Relations Association of Louisiana.
Smiley (yes, that is his real name) started the column after a 13-year career in business journalism, and was The Advocate\'\'s business reporter before becoming a columnist.
In 1997 the name of the category was changed to the Herb Caen Award to honor the San Francisco Chronicle\'\'s long-time items columnist.
The column has received three first place awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (in 1985, 1996 and 2004) in the items category.
This, his first book, features excerpts from some of his Best Columns 1979-1990 For more than 25 years Smiley Anders has been writing his six-days-a-week column for The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La.
From Bunkie to Baton Rouge, from Aggies to Cajuns, Smiley Anders reaps the harvest of Louisiana humor and sets it on the table for his readers six days a week
