TRENT ANGERS, who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a veteran journalist who has authored thousands of published news and feature stories, as well as three books, in a writing and editing career that has spanned four decades. His books are: The Truth About The Cajuns (1989); Dudley LeBlanc: A Biography (1993); and The Forgotten Hero Of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story (1999). Angers graduated from Louisiana State University in 1970 and was named the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Journalism by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism organization. He also won the Hodding Carter Award for Responsible Journalism. He served an apprenticeship at The Palm Beach (Florida) Post. In the early 1970s he was a staff correspondent for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Beaumont Enterprise, and he wrote free-lance articles for a dozen other Louisiana newspapers.

Since 1975, Angers has been editor and publisher of Acadiana Profile, "The Magazine of the Cajun Country," based in Lafayette, Louisiana; it is one of the longest-running regional publications in the United States.

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