Hurricane Camille

“Hurricane Camille … reads like fine adventure fiction. That it is definitely nonfiction makes it all the more troubling and just downright good.” —Danny McKenzie, The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, December 19, 2004)

“Hearn’s account packs a great deal of punch and features a narrative style that makes it difficult to put the book down.” —Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, May 2006

“In the last chapter—’The Next Camille’—Hearn points out that it is not a matter of if, but when the next killer hurricane will hit the Coast.” —Mississippi Business Journal, August 2, 2004

“Hearn brings readers a cinematic reconstruction of the devastating storm… . He still has a reporter’s eye for precise detail.” - Edward Morris, Bookpage.com, August 2004

“What grips the reader by the throat are the oral histories taken from survivors.” - Jim Fraiser, The Biloxi Sun-Herald, July 25, 2004

“Hearn builds an intriguing narrative out of the voices of Camille survivors.” —Bill Minor, The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, August 5, 2004

“While acknowledging broader policy concerns … Hearn focuses on the variety of human experiences during Camille and does that quite well.” —The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, No. 3, Aug. 2005

“With a little imagination, you’ll feel as if you were actually present during that terrible night of death and destruction.” - Charley Reese, nationally syndicated, King Features columnist, July 14, 2005

Philip D. Hearn (1943–2024) was a longtime Mississippi news reporter and editor as well as a research writer for the University Relations Office of Mississippi State University. His work was published in Army Reserve magazine, Vietnam Magazine, and many newspapers.