Wil Haygood

Wil Haygood is a Washington Post writer and the author of several books, including The Butler: A Witness to History (which expanded on his Washington Post feature that was the basis of the Lee Daniels film) and, most recently, Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. He is currently the Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Miami of Ohio.