Reception and booksigning to follow
Hank Klibanoff, a veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is a Professor of Practice in the Emory Creative Writing Program. He co-authored The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for history. Prior to joining Emory, he was a reporter and editor for more than 35 years, held various reporting and editing positions at The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and served as a managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He holds an undergraduate degree in English from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He directs the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University (cold cases.emory.edu), for which students examine Georgia’s modern civil rights history through the investigation of unsolved and unpunished racially motivated murders.