The 2014 winner of the Clarence Cason Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction has a long career in journalism at the Birmingham News and is the author of a shelf of books on Alabama. Among the best known are The Judge, a biography of Frank Johnson Jr., Until Justice Rolls Down the story of the 16th Street Church bombing, and Selma Lord Selma interviews with two little girls who lived through the historical events at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the March to Montgomery. Sikora is also the author of an amusing Alabama family memoir, Let Us Now Praise Famous Women.
