Author Talk: Pulitzer Prize Winning Writing Leonard Pitts, Jr.

The Author Series Committee at the Detroit Public Library is honored to welcome Leonard Pitts, Jr. in celebration of his latest novel, 54 Miles. The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, 54 Miles launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965—from the infamous “Bloody Sunday” march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on the 7th to the triumphant entry into Montgomery on the 25th that climaxed the voting rights campaign—and the families who find themselves confronting the past amid another flashpoint in American history.

Copies of Leonard's books will be available for sale from Detroit's own Source Booksellers!

About Leonard: Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the author of the novels The Last Thing You Surrender, Grant Park, Freeman, and Before I Forget, as well as two works of nonfiction. He was a journalist for more than forty years, including a long tenure as a nationally syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald. He is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, in addition to many other awards. Born and raised in Southern California, Pitts now lives in suburban Washington, DC.

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