Diane McWhorter

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

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Diane McWhorter Biography

Rebecca Diane McWhorter is an American journalist, commentator and author who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. She won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2002 for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.

McWhorter has written extensively on race and the struggle for civil rights in the US. In 2002 she was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. She is also the author of A Dream of Freedom, a young adult history of the civil rights movement. She is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and has written for the op-ed page of USA Today and for Slate, Harper's, Smithsonian, among other publications. She is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today’s Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section, and has been managing editor of Boston magazine.

She has been a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, a Guggenheim Fellow, a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. In 2015 she was one of the recipients in the first year of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Public Scholar program to underwrite the production of general-readership non-fiction books by scholars. She is a member of the Society of American Historians. She is working on Moon over Alabama, a study of Wernher von Braun and the US space program in Alabama.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/26/2024.

Diane McWhorter Videos

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    Alabama native Diane McWhorter talks about “Carry Me Home,” her Pulitzer prize winning account of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham.
  • 'Selma' Q&A with Diane McWhorter
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter (left) tells professor Nancy Sharkey that journalists played an important role in the civil rights ...
  • Left of Black with Diane McWhorter
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