Samuel Freedman is an award-winning author, journalist, and educator. He is the author of 10 books, most recently Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. His books have been finalists for the National Book Award (Small Victories) and the Pulitzer Prize (The Inheritance) and have won the Sidney Hillman Prize (Into the Bright Sunshine), the National Jewish Book Award (Jew vs Jew), and the New York Public Library’s Helen M. Bernstein Award (Upon This Rock). As professor at Columbia Journalism School, Freedman developed a class in book-writing that has produced more than 115 authors, editors, and agents before his retirement. He will lead a special afternoon seminar, “The Book Proposal” at the Community of Writers summer workshops and as part of 2026 Writers’ Annex online will teach a short course “The Narrative Nonfiction Tradition.”
Samuel Freedman is profiled in this recent issue of New York Times: “One Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books.“