Norrell, Robert J.

ROBERT J. NORRELL is the author of several books including his first novel, "Eden Rise;" his 2009 biography, "Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington;" "The House I Live In: Race in the American Century; "and "Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee" won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1986. A professor at the University of Tennessee, he lives in Asheville, NC.