Wil Haygood is the author of ten nonfiction books, including The Butler, which was made into a film directed by Lee Daniels. Haygood has been a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. A Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Haygood is currently the Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Miami University in Ohio, and has recently been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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