EJI Founder Bryan Stevenson Receives Fitzgerald Museum Literary Prize for Excellence in Writing Award

The F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum announced its fifth annual winner of the Fitzgerald Museum Literary Prize for Excellence in Writing. Founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson, was this year’s winner.

Stevenson published his acclaimed memoir Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption in 2014. He received received numerous accolades for the memoir including the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2015).

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Previous recipients of the Fitzgerald Museum Literary Prize have been Alabama authors Frye Gaillard (2019), Wayne Flynt (2018), Katherine Clark (2017) and Kim Cross (2016).