“The Last Folk Hero is the ‘Perfect Storm’ of art world Literature — compelling artists, against-all-odds careers, and a gifted writer who gets it.”
Andrew Dietz is a writer, entrepreneur, and art lover based in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born in Brooklyn New York, raised in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at the University of Michigan and Duke University. He has lived in the South for the past twenty years and resides in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters.



The lives, thoughts and deeds of Maxwell Anderson, Thorton Dial Sr., Bill Arnett, Jane Fonda, Lonnie Holley, Ned Rifkin, Morley Safer, the Quilters of Gee’s Bend and many more collide in ‘The Last Folk Hero’
‘The Last Folk Hero’ is a true story about ego and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and exploitation (actual & accused), about purity sustained and lost, about creative genius that flourishes despite circumstances and about people who are self-absorbed and unreasonable and often right.