
Carol Spindel is the author of two nonfiction books, In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove and Dancing at Halftime: Sports and the Controversy Over American Indian Mascots, as well as radio commentaries, essays, and articles. In 2019 she edited and self-published her mother's memoir: The Beginnings of Black Radio: My Years at WDIA Memphis.
Her awards include a New York Times Notable Book Award, a PRNDI for Best Writing from the Public Radio News Directors, and an award for excellence in honors teaching from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she taught creative nonfiction for many years. Currently she makes pottery while pretending she's in Paris with the cubists and works as an ACLU activist. Her book I Give You Half the Road, about five people who left one rural community in Ivory Coast, West Africa, during a period of political turmoil, is forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press.