About the Author

Diane McWhorter is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and the op-ed page of USA TODAY, among other national publications. Her young adult history of the civil rights movement is A Dream of Freedom. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in New York City

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Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award One of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books since 1923 "Best Books" List: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, American Heritage