Haygood, Wil

A Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and a writer for the "Washington Post", Wil Haygood has been described as a cultural historian. He is the author of a trio of iconic biographies. His "King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., " told the story of the enigmatic New York congressman and was named a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. That was followed-after publication of a family memoir-by "In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., " which was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Music Biography Award, the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard W...