John Egerton

John Egerton (June 14, 1935 — November 21, 2013) was an American journalist and author known for his writing on the civil rights movement, Southern food, history of the South, and Southern culture.

Egerton's Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also wrote Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History and coedited Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, a look at his adopted city to in the 1960s. In June 2013, five months before his own death, Egerton spoke at the memorial service for preacher and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell. to recognize annually selected "artists, writers, scholars, and others—including artisans and farmers—whose work in the American South addresses issues of race, class, gender, and social and environmental justice, through the lens of food."

Egerton died at the age of 78 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Nashville. He and his wife, Ann Bleidt, were the parents of two sons.