Author Showcase: Meet Ben Montgomery. Joining us this month will be Ben Montgomery. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Grandma Gatewood’s Walk”, which won the 2014 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography; “The Leper Spy”; and “The Man Who Walked Backward”. An award-winning staff writer at the Tampa Bay Times, Montgomery was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. He is the James A. Clendinen visiting professor in journalism at the University of South Florida. No registration required.