Will D. Campbell is a Mississippi backwoods Baptist preacher with a Yale degree. He was the only white founder of the SCLC and a friend and confident to Dr. Martin Luther King. He was a strategist and negotiator at major Civil Rights Movement campaigns. He is an intellectual who chews tobacco, wears cowboy boots, and has befriended Black Panthers and members of the Ku Klux Klan. He is the author of 15 books including "Brother to a Dragonfly," the winners of the Lillian Smith Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award.