Life Lesson
Writing the biography of Samuel Battle, New York City’s first black policeman, Arthur Browne learned a lot about himself and a society’s not-so-subtle racism that formed him.
Arthur Browne, winner of a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, is editorial page editor of the New York Daily News. He is the author of One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York, which is published by Beacon Press.