Stephen L. Carter is the author of more than a dozen works of nonfiction and six novels. For
more than 30 years, he has been on the faculty at Yale University where he is now the William
Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law. He also was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall. Carter’s debut novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent 11 weeks on the
New York Times bestseller list and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His previous
nonfiction books include God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics
and Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. In addition to his scholarship, he
has published hundreds of opinion pieces, mainly about law, but also about ethics and about
popular culture.
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