Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, and His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.