Who gets to tell what stories?
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Feb 12, 2020
2 minutes
People keep asking me about George Simon.
They want to know why I created him and if it was hard to do. One person told me I was "brave."
I wasn't trying to be brave. I was trying to write my latest novel, a World War II story called "The Last Thing You Surrender." But, you see, George, one of my protagonists, is white
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