TRENT ANGERS who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature (2000 and 2001), is a veteran journalist who has authored thousands of published news and feature stories, as well as four 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); The Forgotten Hero Of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story (1999); and Grand Coteau: The Holy Land of South Louisiana (2005).

A member of the Secular Franciscan Order, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1970 and was a staff correspondent for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans in the early 1970s.

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