Leonard Pitts: 8 books

Black Lives Matter Bestselling author and syndicated columnist on issues of race in the U.S., Leonard Pitts has received death threats and been subjected to harassment by neo-Nazis. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004, he has authored hundreds of articles addressing the charged...

Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper columns, along with select longer pieces. The book is arranged chronologically under three broad subject...

This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood - and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration - gives author Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons. As...

An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—“engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise” (Kirkus Reviews).   Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America’s greatest...

Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia...

"Grant Park", der dritte Roman des mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichneten Miami-Herald-Kolumnisten Leonard Pitts, Jr. spielt an zwei der eindrucksvollsten Schauplätzen amerikanischer Geschichte: am Tag von Obamas Wahl zum Präsidenten im Herbst 2008 und beim Streik in Memphis, der 1968...

HISTORICAL FICTION PAGE-TURNER: Combines the accessible prose and old-fashioned storytelling of Pitts’s previous novels with a deeply researched historical setting CELEBRATED AUTHOR: Author is a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist with a three-times-weekly newspaper column syndicated nationally in...

"A novel as significant as it is engrossing." —Booklist, starred review Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift...