Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Nation, and New York Times Magazine, and he is the author of several books, including A History of Future Cities and The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction. A New York native and a Yale graduate, Brook lives in New Orleans. He researched The Einstein of Sex in Berlin on a Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship.

"A spell-binding exploration of mixed-race Charlestonians and New Orleanians who… built complex lives across the color line.… Heartbreaking but also vividly alive, The Accident of Color… portrays the many ways people struggled for the right to define themselves in a time of hardening racial lines. A lovely, necessary book."

Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Nation, and New York Times Magazine, and he is the author of several books, including A History of Future Cities and The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction. A New York native and a Yale graduate, Brook lives in New Orleans. He researched The Einstein of Sex in Berlin on a Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship.

"A spell-binding exploration of mixed-race Charlestonians and New Orleanians who… built complex lives across the color line.… Heartbreaking but also vividly alive, The Accident of Color… portrays the many ways people struggled for the right to define themselves in a time of hardening racial lines. A lovely, necessary book."

Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Nation, and New York Times Magazine, and he is the author of several books, including A History of Future Cities and The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction. A New York native and a Yale graduate, Brook lives in New Orleans. He researched The Einstein of Sex in Berlin on a Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship.

"A spell-binding exploration of mixed-race Charlestonians and New Orleanians who… built complex lives across the color line.… Heartbreaking but also vividly alive, The Accident of Color… portrays the many ways people struggled for the right to define themselves in a time of hardening racial lines. A lovely, necessary book."