Michael G. Long has a Ph.D. from Emory University and is the author or editor of several books on civil rights, politics, and religion. He has a special interest in the genre of letters and is the editor, most recently, of Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny (Syracuse University Press); Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball (Syracuse University Press); I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters (City Lights Books); and Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall (Amistad/HarperCollins). Long's first book on Jackie Robinson -- First Class Citizenship (Times Books) -- was selected as a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and received critical acclaim in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Book Forum, Ebony/Jet, and other major media outlets. He is a popular speaker, with engagements from the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to the City Club of San Diego, and has appeared on C-Span and National Public Radio. Long teaches religious studies and peace and conflict studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.