Overview

• 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.”