Author

Michelle Alexander

2 books, mostly politics, for Penguin and Recorded Books, 2012–2019

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights attorney, legal scholar, advocate, and author best known for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, her influential 2010 nonfiction work on race, criminal justice, and mass incarceration. She has also written essays and opinion pieces for major publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation. ([nationalbook.org](https://www.nationalbook.org/people/michelle-alexander/))