James Babb: Ex-Hippie, Gray's Editor

U.K. journalist Keith Elliott offers an entertaining profile of James Babb

, who has been editor of Gray’s Sporting Journal for ten years now, in The Independent. “An accomplished artist, he once made his wife a set of 52 ‘Get Out Of Sex Free’ cards as a seasonal gift. ‘She’s nearly used ’em all up,’ he says in the hometown Tennessee drawl he switches into effortlessly when he’s probably joking.”
You can read a sample of Babb’s witticisms and anti-purist style on MidCurrent in an excerpt from his most recent book, Fly Fishin’ Fool.