Bryan Stevenson

Established last year by friends and family of the founding owner of Politics & Prose, this annual award recognizes two authors of first or second books, one fiction, one nonfiction. Join us to celebrate the exceptional work of Atticus Lish, author of Preparations for the Next Life (Tyrant, $15), and Bryan Stevenson, author of Just mercy (Spiegel & Grau, $28). add to cart add to cart

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A FAN Presentation

Just mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Named one of the best books of 2014 by many publications, this is an account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a window into the lives of those he has defended, and an argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

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The Dark Side Reading Group will meet on Wednesday January 21st at 1pm in the bookstore conference room for a discussion of Just mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by the bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount) For more information please contact Alden Graves, agraves@northshire.com.

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Premier Event: Bryan Stevenson

Thursday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.

Just Mercy Tickets are available at Kepler's and online at Brown Paper Tickets.

Peninsula Arts & Letters is very excited to host Bryan Stevenson, winner of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, who has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color.

Just Mercy is a true account of an idealistic young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justicefrom one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

A 1985 graduate of Harvard, with both a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from the School of Law, Bryan Stevenson joined the clinical faculty at New York University School of Law in 1998.

Stevenson has been representing capital defendants and death row prisoners in the deep south since 1985 when he was a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. Since 1989, he has been Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a private, nonprofit law organization he founded that focuses on social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States.

Click HERE to listen to his TED talks.

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