Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1979
• Where—Nasville, Tennessee, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Chicago
• Currently—lives in Brooklyn (New York City), New York
Clay Risen is an editor at The New York Times op-ed section. Before that, he was an assistant editor at The New Republic and the founding managing editor of the noted quarterly Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. His recent freelance work has appeared in such journals as The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post.
His first book, A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination (2009) was hailed as “compelling, original history” (Peniel Joseph) and “a crucial addition to civil rights history” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). He is also the author of American Whiskey, Bourbon and Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Spirit (2013) and The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act (2014). (From the author's website.)
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