author : Robert J. NorrellROBERT 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.