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 a professor at Columbia Journalism School, Freedman developed a class in book-writing that has produced more than 110 authors, editors, and agents. He will lead a special afternoon seminar on the Book Proposal at the Community of Writers.