Diane McWhorter

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Diane McWhorter
Born	November 1, 1952 (1952-11) (age 72)
Occupation	Journalist
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2009) Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2002) Berlin Prize (2007)
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Rebecca Diane McWhorter (born November 1, 1952) is an American journalist, commentator, and author who has written extensively about race and the history of civil rights. She 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 (Simon & Schuster, 2001; reprinted with a new afterword, 2013).