Richard Hoard pens novel on Dixie Mafia

Richard Hoard pens novel on Dixie Mafia

BY SOPHIA HOU Oconee resident Richard Hoard is a writer, but he is also a minister, teacher, football commentator and impressionist. Hoard first became interested in writing while majoring in journalism at the University of Georgia. What began as an English assignment became a memoir about the 1967 murder of his father, Floyd Hoard. Twenty years and 36 rejection slips later, “Alone Among the Living” was published. “It was written in blood, so to…