Diane McWhorter

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 Nonfiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2002 for ''Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution'' (Simon & Schuster, 2001; reprinted with a new afterword, 2013). Provided by Wikipedia