Michael Eric Dyson
Author, academic and Baptist minister
Michael Eric Dyson is an American academic, author and Baptist minister who writes about race, religion and politics.
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American Born 1958 in Detroit, United States
About Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 23, 1958. Besides writing books, he is a radio host and a public intellectual. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including biographies of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Jay-Z. His books JAY-Z and What Truth Sounds Like are in our catalog, and the latter is a New York Times best seller. His book Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster earned him an American Book Award. He has also twice won an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Image Award.