Benjamin Hedin

BENJAMIN HEDIN is the author of In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now and editor of the anthology Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader. He has written for the New Yorker, Time, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. Also a Grammy-nominated producer of documentary films, he wrote the films Two Trains Runnin' about the search for two forgotten blues singers and the multiple award-winning 2021 documentary MLK/FBI—called "eye-opening and jaw-dropping" by Rolling Stone. He lives in Atlanta.