DIANE MCWHORTER

'Rebecca Diane McWhorter' is an American journalist and commentator who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama--The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution'' (Simon & Schuster, 2001) and ''A Dream of Freedom'', a young adult history of the civil rights movement (Scholastic, 2004). She is a long-time contributor to The ''New York Times'' and has written for the op-ed page of ''USA Today'', Slate, and many other publications. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and now lives in New York City.
She graduated from Wellesley College after attending The Brooke Hill School in Birmingham.
Diane McWhorter is a 'Holtzbrinck Fellow' at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007.