Scott Reynolds Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man, which won the National Award for Arts Writing, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Prize, the Merle Curti Prize for best book in U.S. history, and the Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction. His young adult book, Ain’t Nothing But a Man (written with Marc Aronson) won seven national awards, including the Jane Addams Prize for best book on social justice.
Author website: http://srnels.people.wm.edu/
Books in order of publication:
Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. UNC Press. 1999
Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. Oxford University Press. 2006.
A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War. Oxford University Press. 2007
Ain’t Nothing But A Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. National Geographic Books. 2008
A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters. Random House Digital, Inc. 2012.
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