Leonard Pitts: Q & A with the Audience

Name: Leonard Pitts: Q & A with the Audience
Uploaded: 2012-06-27T19:49:23+00:00
Duration: 13 min 6 s
Channel: Austin PBS
Description: Readers and fans know writer Leonard Pitts as a novelist and Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist. His column, written for The Miami Herald, appears twice weekly and addresses a wide range of political and social issues. His new novel, Freeman, follows a former slave in the months after the Civil War’s end as he leaves Philadelphia to find his wife in the South.

Readers and fans know writer Leonard Pitts as a novelist and Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist.  His column, written for The Miami Herald, appears twice weekly and addresses a wide range of political and social issues.  His new novel, Freeman, follows a former slave in the months after the Civil War’s end as he leaves Philadelphia to find his wife in the South.