Patrick Parr

Patrick Parr is the author of three books, most recently “Malcolm Before X,” which Kirkus Reviews praised as being “the definitive story of Malcolm’s youth and early adulthood.” He is also the author of One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation and The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age. Parr’s work has appeared in The American Prospect, Japan Today and The Atlantic, among others. He lives with his wife near Tokyo and teaches writing at Lakeland University Japan.