Diane McWhorter

Diane McWhorter is an 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. She is a long-time contributor to the New York Times and the op-ed page of USA Today, among other national publications. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in...See more

Diane McWhorter is an 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. She is a long-time contributor to the New York Times and the op-ed page of USA Today, among other national publications. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in New York City. See less