1. Rebecca Diane McWhorter was born on November 1,1952 and is an American journalist, commentator, and author who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights.
10 Facts About Diane McWhorter
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Diane McWhorter won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the J Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2002 for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.
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Diane McWhorter has written extensively on race and the struggle for civil rights in the US.
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Diane McWhorter is the author of A Dream of Freedom, a young adult history of the civil rights movement.
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Diane McWhorter is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and has written for the op-ed page of USA Today and for Slate, Harper's, Smithsonian, among other publications.
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Diane McWhorter is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today's Forum Page, part of the newspaper's Opinion section, and has been managing editor of Boston magazine.
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Diane McWhorter has been a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, a Guggenheim Fellow, a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the W E B Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.
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Diane McWhorter is a member of the Society of American Historians.
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Diane McWhorter is working on Moon over Alabama, a study of Wernher von Braun and the US space program in Alabama.
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Diane McWhorter married Richard Dean Rosen in 1987; they have two children.