Robert Hamburger is author of six books ranging from oral history, personal journalism, biography, and travel memoir to fiction. He produced and conducted interviews for Freedom's Front Line: Fayette County, Tennessee, a thirty-minute film about the civil rights movement that was broadcast on WKNO, the western Tennessee PBS station. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities research awards; three Fulbright teaching fellowships (France, New Delhi, and Kolkata); three residencies at MacDowell artists' colony; and a New York Foundation of the Arts award in creative nonfiction.