A two-time Nation­al Book Award final­ist and win­ner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Hadas­sah Myr­tle Wreath Award, the ACLU Nation­al Civ­il Lib­er­ties Award & oth­er hon­ors, Melis­sa Fay Greene is a cur­rent Guggen­heim Fel­low, a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to The New York Times Mag­a­zine, and a fre­quent guest on NPR.