An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
National Humanities Medal and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient David Levering Lewis is the author of multiple books, including God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, When Harlem Was in Vogue, and two Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois, W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race and W.E.B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century. His latest work is The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958, which Publishers Weekly calls “a scintillating and piercing study of how the Black upper class emerged from a fraught system in which violence, family, and inheritance were intertwined.” Lewis discussed the new book with fellow BIO member John A. Farrell in May.
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