Elinor Langer, a member of The Nation editorial board, is the author of Josephine Herbst (1983) and A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in the United States (2003), which grew out of an issue-length report for The Nation in 1990. It was chosen as a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Award for work-in-progress and was also a finalist for both the Book-of-the-Month Club’s “Best Non-Fiction Book” and the PEN-USA “Best Research-Based Non-Fiction Book” that year. Her work has appeared in such publications as The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Science, and Mother Jones, and she has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute.
She is now at work on a portrait of the last ruler of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani, that combines her love of biography with her love of Hawaiian history.
