TJ Fisher is a Southern author,Publishers Weekly, “The Year in Awards,” 31 December 2007, Benjamin Franklin Awards, Best First Book (nonfiction) Orléans Embrace with the Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré; Best New Voice (Nonfiction) Orléans Embrace with The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré. documentarist and social critic who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and Palm Beach, Florida.