And All Our Wounds Forgiven: A Novel

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When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But history had another plan for him: here, a veteran author re-envisions the Martin Luther King Jr. story in fearful, exciting, and violent terms. Political and provocative, And All Our Wounds Forgiven is both a compelling political fable and a striking and tender love story about one of this centurys most charismatic black leaders and the two women he loved.

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Julius Lester is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the best-selling Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama and Do Lord Remember Me. Along with receiving numerous book awards, Lester has published critical writing in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the New Republic. Lester spent his childhood in Kansas and Tennessee. In 1963 he became deeply involved with the civil rights movement. He served on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst-where he was awarded the Distinguished Teacher's Award, the Faculty Fellowship Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship, and the Chancellor's Medal- until 2003, when he retired. He now resides with his wife in western Massachusetts.