Writer and musician. Emery & McKnight Duo, Cleaver Smith Swenson & McKnight Band. www.itsthemusic.com Recent compositions and songs: "Ninth Street Rag" for clarinet, "In the Fields of Orange" for piano, "Honey Come Home," guitar vocal. 1990 Democratic nominee, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of North Carolina. Former newspaper journalist for the Greensboro News & Record, Durham Herald-Sun, Raleigh News & Observer, Fayetteville Observer, Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle. Duke University, B.A., History. Hometown: Charlotte.