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{{short description|American author and journalist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|birth_place = [[Danville, Virginia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/236398/jerry-bledsoe |publisher = Penguin Random House |title=Jerry Bledsoe |accessdate=2018-01-12|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
|awards= {{awards |award=[[National Journalism Awards]] |name=Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Writing |year=1968 |year2=1970}}<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[El Paso Herald-Post]] |author=Scripps-Howard Newspapers|date=February 6, 1971 |title= N.C. Newsman Receives Second Ernie Pyle Award |at=Section B, Page 2}}</ref>
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'''Jerry Bledsoe''' (born 1941) is an American [[author]] and [[journalist]] known for several [[true crime]] titles based on murders in his native state of [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.courier-tribune.com/lifestyle/20190216/bledsoe-unlikely-writer-according-to-memoir|title=Bledsoe an unlikely writer, according to memoir|first=Larry Penkava lpenkava@courier-tribune com|last=Twitter: @larrypenkavaCT|website=The Courier-Tribune}}</ref>
His journalism career, which spanned over 20 years, included newspaper work in the North Carolina cities of [[Kannapolis, North Carolina|Kannapolis]], [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]], and [[Greensboro, North Carolina|Greensboro]] and work at ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine. Bledsoe also contributes investigative reports to the ''[[Rhinoceros Times]]'', including a
His first published book was the stock car book ''[[The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book]]'' published by Doubleday in 1975. His book ''[[Bitter Blood]]'' was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted as a television movie. Bledsoe established Down Home Press to publish books about North Carolina.
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==Books==
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* ''You Can't Live on Radishes'' (1976)
* ''Just Folks: Visitin's With Carolina People'' (1980)
* ''Where's Mark Twain When We Really Need Him'' (1981)
* ''From Whalebone to Hot House: A Journey Along North Carolina's Longest Highway, U.S. 64'' (1986)
* ''[[Bitter Blood|Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder]]'' (1989)
* ''Bare-Bottomed Skier: And Other Unlikely Tales'' (1990)
* ''Just Folks: Visitin' With Carolina People'' (1990)
* ''North Carolina Curiosities: Jerry Bledsoe's Outlandish Guide to the Dablamedest Things to See and Do in North Carolina'' (1990)
* ''[[Blood Games (Bledsoe book)|Blood Games: A True Account of Family Murder]]'' (1991)
* ''Country Cured: Reflections from the Heart'' (1991)
* ''Blue Horizons: Faces and Places from a Bicycle Journey Along the Blue Ridge Parkway'' (1993)
* ''Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder'' (1994) (About convicted murderer [[Barbara Stager]])
* ''Grits For Brain'' (1994)
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* ''Death Sentence: The True Story of [[Velma Barfield|Velma Barfield's]] Life, Crimes, and Execution'' (1998)
* ''A Gift of Angels: Sequel to the Angel Doll, a Christmas Story'' (1999)
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828180420/http://www.blairpub.com/cultural%20studies/Bledsoeinterview.htm Interview with Jerry Bledsoe at blairpub.com]
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