Wil Haygood is currently the Wiepking Visiting Distinguished Professor in the department of media, journalism, and film at Miami University, Ohio. For nearly three decades he was a journalist, serving as a national and foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and then at The Washington Post, where he wrote the story “A Butler Well Served by this Election,” which became the basis for the award-winning motion picture The Butler. Haygood is recipient of both a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Haygood’s book The Butler: A Witness to History has been translated into a dozen foreign languages. His biographies of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson have all garnered wide acclaim. In Confrontación: Thurgood Marshall y la nominación a la Corte Suprema que cambió Estados Unidos (Knopf), Haygood details the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years.