CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT is an awardwinning journalist with more than 60 years in the industry, extending her work at various times to all media, including the New Yorker, NBC, the New York Times, PBS, NPR, and CNN. She is the author of five books, and her most recent, My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives, was published by HarperCollins in 2022. It is a compilation of her 60 years of reporting on people of color. Kirkus cited it as one of the best nonfiction books of 2022, calling it “a wonderful showcase of the work of an invaluable 20th century journalist.”She is being honored this year for Lifetime Achievement by the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, as well as with membership in the National Academy of Arts and Letters. Hunter-Gault holds more than three dozen honorary degrees. She is married to retired businessman Ronald T. Gault, and has two adult children, Suesan, an artist and singer, and Chuma, an actor and director.
