The National Endowment for the Humanities has selected the first 36 recipients in their new Public Scholar program, which “supports well-researched books in the humanities conceived and written to reach a broad readership.” The initiative awards 6- and 12-month grants, paying writers $4,200 a month (resulting in grants worth $25,200 and $50,400). Among the recipients is Pulitzer winner Dianne McWhorter, for her long in-the-works book Moon of Alabama: The Space Race and Civil Rights in Post-WWII Huntsville. She tells the Washington Post, “How splendid that the NEH has decided to recognize hybrids like me — journalist-historians who combine the storytelling imperative of […]