Comprehensive Biography of Late Civil Rights Leader John Lewis Set for Fall 2024 Release

Historian David Greenberg to draw from hundreds of interviews, FBI files, and unfinished project by fellow activist Archie Allen for the biography.

Publishing company Simon & Schuster announced that historian David Greenberg’s biography of late civil rights pioneer and former Rep. John Lewis is scheduled for release in fall 2024.
The biography will draw upon hundreds of interviews, Lewis's FBI files, and material from an unfinished project by Lewis’s friend and fellow activist, Archie Allen.
Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, began writing Lewis’s story while the civil rights pioneer was still alive and received his approval for it.
Greenberg aims to present a comprehensive, authoritative life of John Lewis, from his extraordinary contributions to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s to his emergence as 'the conscience of the Congress' and national icon.
Greenberg has also written “Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image” and “Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency.”