Keri Leigh Merritt
@kerileighmerritt
Historian (PhD) & Author: AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN; Masterless Men; After Life; Southern Labor History. Rocker. Traveler. Questioner. Seeker. IG @kerileighmerritt
So thrilled to have such a wonderful endorsement for An Inconvenient Woman from Pulitzer Prize winner @brian-goldstone.bsky.social 🥹
So grateful for this fantastic Booklist review for An Inconvenient Woman! “Historian Merritt’s insightful, engaging narrative effortlessly folds in family anecdotes and excerpts…This well-documented and perceptive tribute aptly humanizes a visionary and fearless woman.”😍😍😍
Thrilled to receive a starred review from @libraryjournal.bsky.social: “VERDICT An excellent and inspiring biography, recommended for general collections and especially for those interested in literary figures and civil rights and LGBTQIA+ activists of the 1960s.”
PS - the new @drkarenlcox.bsky.social endorsement graphic!🙌🙌🙌 Thanks again, my friend.
More than 5 months until publication and An Inconvenient Woman is already getting press!!! Thank you @rebelliousmag.bsky.social!✊
Just got back from overseas and @davidgriscom.bsky.social brilliant new book, The Myth of Red Texas, was here waiting for me. Congrats, David, can’t wait to read it!
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Honored to endorse A.J. Cade’s new book, Death or Victory. If you’re interested in slavery or the Civil War, this is a must-read. @lsupress.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to announce that Rev. Dr. William Barber II of The Poor People’s Campaign kindly wrote the beautiful foreword for An Inconvenient Woman. Grateful and thankful.
Finally, new author photos! AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, out 9/29 from @StMartinsPress.
Happy birthday to Lillian Smith (1897-1966): bestselling author, civil rights activist, & 1st white Southerner to publicly call for integration. My bio on her will be out @stmartinspress.bsky.social September 29! Just finished copyedits😌
Final title for the Lillian book, out 9/29/26 from St. Martin’s Press (will reveal the author of the Foreword soon!): AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America
Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP). It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!
Completely finished (edited & turned in!) my new biography of Lillian Smith, the bestselling author, civil rights activist, & FIRST white Southerner to publicly call for integration. Will be out September 2026 from St. Martin’s Press. Excited to share her amazing story with the world.♥️
Charles Kuck at Kuck Baxter in Atlanta has filed a temporary restraining order (TRO) for international students who have had their visas terminated. Anyone can email Kuck or Danielle Claffey to see about joining the lawsuit: ckuck@immigration.net dclaffey@immigration.net
There it is, everything (single spaced!) except the last chapter and the introduction, which I am finishing over the next few days. This project has been an absolute beast but I *think* - I hope - I have done her justice. Out next year with St. Martin’s Press. #LillianSmith
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Kind of obsessed with all the art deco architecture here.
An auspicious start to the New Year. Wishing for peace, love, and understanding.♥️
Welp I said the SHA would be my last #academic #conference ever but couldn’t miss a chance to discuss the state of southern labor history with some of the best labor historians still working… #labor #laborhistory #business #businesshistory #atlanta #histoy
Absolutely the most pro-child rape essay I’ve read in a long time. Vanity Fair should be ashamed. Just sick:
Please join me tonight at 8pm ET for a live Zoom with updates on EVERYTHING (link on Patreon!) - but especially this: a couple weeks ago we shot a #trailer for a new documentary on the Civil War that centers on class & labor issues. Can’t wait to share all the news with you.