Scott Saul

SCOTT SAUL is a historian and critic who has written for The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, Bookforum, and other publications. The author of Becoming Richard Pryor and Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, he is also the creator of "Richard Pryor's Peoria" -- www.becomingrichardpryor.com -- a digital companion to his Pryor biography that brings to life Pryor's formative years in Peoria's red light district.

For a limited time only, readers can request a signed "book plate" (a nice sticker that Scott Saul is happy to inscribe as you like) for Becoming Richard Pryor at http://www.scott-saul.com/#!contact/c1kcz.

He teaches courses in American literature and history at UC-Berkeley, where he is an Associate Professor of English. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and son.