Deni Ellis Béchard is a photojournalist, writer, and activist whose work focuses on human rights, politics, and the environment. His work includes the novel Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize; the memoir Cures for Hunger, an IndieNext pick; and Of Bonobos and Men, winner of the Nautilus Book Award for Investigative Journalism and overall Grand Prize. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Harvard Review, and Foreign Policy, and he has lived in more than sixty countries, reporting from Afghanistan, India, Colombia, the Congo, and Iraq. Kirkus calls his second novel, Into the Sun, “an insightful and affecting look into the lives of those who risk everything to help the people of Afghanistan and tell their stories.”
Links:
Béchard’s TEDx Talk: Race and the Myth of the American Outlaw