Richard Rubin
Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
Richard Rubin is
the author of the memoir Confederacy of
Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South.
He is a regular contributor to The
New Yorker, The New York Times
Magazine, Smithsonian and The Atlantic Monthly. His New
York Times Magazine article “The Ghosts of Emmett Till” was included in The Best American Crime Writing 2006. He also published fiction in several
magazines and journals, including The
Oxford American, The Southern Review, and The
Virginia Quarterly Review.