About Diane McWhorter
Diane McWhorter, a journalist based in New York City, is the author of
Carry Me Home(Simon & Schuster), a history of the civil rights revolution in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. It won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, among other awards. Her young-adult history of the civil rights movement,
A Dream of Freedom (Scholastic) was one of
The New York Times’s nine “Notable Children’s Books of 2004. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is a member of the Society of American Historians and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and, most recently, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. McWhorter has been a longtime contributor to
The New York Times and is on the
U.S.A Today Board of Contributors, writing for its op-ed page. Her articles on race, politics, and culture have also appeared in The Nation, Slate, The American Scholar, Smithsonian, Harper’s, and other publications
