Imani Perry
Imani Perry is a professor of African American Studies at Harvard University. She received the 2022 National Book Award for nonfiction for her New York Times bestseller South to America, A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. She is the author of eight other works of nonfiction, as well as numerous essays on photography, culture, history, and literature. She has written for The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and The Bitter Southerner.