John Lewis, son of an Alabama sharecropper, attended college in Tennessee where he became involved with the civil rights movement. Present at all the battlefields of the movement such as Selma, Montgomery and Birmingham; he shares his pioneering experiences at the 2004 National Book Festival. Walking with the Wind (Harcourt, 1999), his eyewitness account and testimony of the movement, is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lillian Smith Book Award for Non-Fiction, and The New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Since 1987, Mr. Lewis has been the U.S. representative for the 5th Congressional District of Georgia. From the Series:The Library of Congress: 2004 National Book Festival