Steve Fiffer is a New York Times best-selling author whose books include his memoir Three Quarters, Two Dimes, and a Nickel, Jimmie Lee and James, and The Moment, as well as collaborations with former Secretary of State James Baker, civil rights icon C. T. Vivian, Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris Dees, and former U.S. Ambassador Robert Jordan. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is a graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago Law School.