Douglas A. Blackmon
Douglas A. Blackmon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer who earned the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Slavery by Another Name.
The Pulitzer committee praised his "precise and eloquent work" examining systematic racial suppression and rescuing forgotten atrocities from obscurity.
Born in Arkansas and raised in the Mississippi Delta, Blackmon worked as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming Atlanta bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal.
His award-winning book draws from extensive original documents and personal narratives to uncover how tens of thousands of freed slaves were forced back into involuntary servitude throughout the twentieth century.
