Black Like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition

About John Howard Griffin

John Howard Griffin was a musicologist who served and was injured in the Air Force during World War II. Blind for a decade Griffin became an acclaimed novelist and essayist and when his sight returned almost miraculously he became a remarkable portrait photographer. Following his cross-racial exploration in the South he was personally vilified hanged in effigy in his hometown threatened with death and severely beaten by the Klu Klux Klan. Respected internationally as a human rights activist he worked with major Civil Rights leaders throughout the era taught at the University of Peace and delivered more than a 1200 lectures in America and abroad. He is the author of The Devil Rides Outside and posthumous works such as Prison of Culture: Beyond Black Like Me. Robert Bonazzi is a widely published writer and the author of Living the Borrowed Life Maestro of Solitude: Poems and Poetics and The Scribbling Cure: Poems and Prose Poems. He is the literary executor for the estate of John Howard Griffin. He lives in San Antonio Texas. Studs Terkel was a cultural commentator columnist interviewer and author of many books on American history and culture including Touch and Go: A Memoir and The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century.