Edwin Floyd Holman, a native of Moravian Falls (Wilkes County), was born on June 17, 1898. Holman studied at Wake Forest and worked as a shoe salesman for Henry-Miller Co. in North Wilkesboro. He served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919. In 1923, he began a long career in journalism, first as a columnist for the Winston-Salem Journal then as an editor for the Charlotte Observer. He moved to Atlanta in 1929 to work as a reporter and photographer for the Associated Press, a position he held for thirty-four years. He died in Atlanta on March 14, 1974.