David J. Garrow

David Jeffries Garrow (born May 11, 1953) is an American historian and author specializing in the U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights Movement, and American political history. His most notable work, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986), won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, along with other acclaimed books like Liberty and Sexuality (1994) and Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017).Pulitzer.org,Encyclopedia.com