Jeffrey C. Stewart is a National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize to speak at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference

Jeffrey C. Stewart is a National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize and the Mark Lynton Prize for History, all for his stunning biography,The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke. He is a Professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara, where he was chair of the department from 2008-2016. Dr. Stewart is the author of numerous articles, essays and books. Other titles are Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen and 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History. Professor Stewart has taught at Harvard
University, Yale University, UCLA, Tufts University, Howard University, Scripps College, and George Mason University.