Diane McWhorter is the author of Carry Me Home, a history of the civil rights revolution in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. It won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Currently, she is working on a book about Wernher von Braun and the Third Reich missile pioneers who were brought to Alabama after the war and built the rocket that put the first man on the moon. McWhorter has been a longtime contributor to The New York Times and is on the USA Today Board of Contributors, writing for its op-ed page. She conducted series of workshops on opinion writing at the Kennedy School.
Diane McWhorter: Harper Lee, the National Antidote
April 8, 2016
April 8, 2016 — Diane McWhorter, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center in 2014 and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, explores the questions raised by Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman. “Now more than five decades after Harper Lee first awakened so many (white) people to their moral potential, we still need to be told that black
