Worth E. Norman, Jr. has
authored a biography of the Rev. James Solomon Russell that will be
published next month. The book, entitled "James Solomon Russell: Former
Slave, Pioneering Educator and Episcopal Evangelist," includes
Russell's early church career prior to joining the original and
undivided Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Worth is a native of Norfolk,
an Old Dominion University graduate, and former member of Trinity,
Portsmouth and Ascension, Norfolk. He has published work on Russell in
The Historiographer, The Living Church and the Brunswick Times-Gazette
(Virginia). He lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Click here for more information.
