Biography;
Attorney;  advocate for individuals in the justice system. Born November 14, 1959, Milton, Delaware. Parents: Howard Carlton and Alice Gertrude Golden Stevenson. Education: Eastern University, 1981; Harvard Law School (J.D.), 1985; John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, M.P.P., 1985.  Professor of law at New York University; executive director, Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery. Awarded twenty honorary degrees; among many other honors, received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1995; the William Robert Ming Advocacy Award from the NAACP in 2010; the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction from the American Library Association in 2014.

Sources;

 Bryan Stevenson website; Marquis Who’s Who online.
Publications;
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014.