Nathan McCall

Nathan McCall is a writer who was born in Norfolk, Va. one of five children.

He graduated Norfolk State University, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. Nathan has worked as a reporter for The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Washington Post, where he worked until taking a leave of absence to write his best-selling autobiography, Makes Me Wanna Holler, A Young Black Man in America.

Makes Me Wanna Holler was a New York Times bestseller and won the Blackboard Book of the Year Award for 1995.

After the success of his books, McCall was in demand as a speaker. He left The Washington Post for the lecture circuit. Today he continues to write and holds the post of lecturer in the Department of African-American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.