Richard Kluger seems to like to sink his teeth into complex subjects and set them in terms of sweeping societal concepts.

His two best-known works are Simple Justice, generally regarded as the definitive account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision outlawing racially segregated public schools, and Ashes to Ashes, a critical history of the cigarette industry and its lethal toll on the public’s health, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1997

 Kluger started his writing career as a New York journalist and publishing executive who turned in mid-career to write both fiction and non-fiction.  His latest work, Hamlet's Children, was published in August 2023. The historical novel is set in German-occupied Denmark during World War II and is the story of an American teenager marooned there with his Danish relatives. 

To learn more about this important and creative social commentator, visit https://www.richardkluger.com/

Here's what the Pulitzer Prize committee says about Kluger, a consummate writer and researcher.