October 2014

Stevenson's memoir about his work defending death row inmates through the Equal Justice Initiative became a bestseller and is now one of the most widely assigned books in American law schools and high schools. Adapted into a major film in 2019, it drove public understanding of racial bias in the criminal justice system.

Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson's memoir about representing death-row prisoners in the Deep South became a bestseller and won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The book catalyzed public awareness of racial injustice in capital punishment and was later adapted into a major film.