Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), preacher, civil rights leader, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, inspired and sustained the struggle for freedom, interracial brotherhood, and social justice through his philosophy and strategies of nonviolence.Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, and many more. He is a professor at the University of Southern California