Miriam Pawel

Miriam Pawel

Miriam Pawel is the author of the just-published book, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, the first biography of the iconic founder of the United Farm Workers. Her earlier work, The Union of Their Dreams – Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement, was hailed as a nuanced, ground-breaking narrative of the movement. She is a Pultizer-prize winning editor who spent 25 years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She recieved a National Endowment for the Humanties fellowship to complete her work on the Chavez biography.

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