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Leonard Pitts Jr

As Leonard Pitts Jr. leaves to be an author, here are the books he’s already written

Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote the novel “Freeman” in 2012.
Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote the novel “Freeman” in 2012.

Long-time Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. has retired. But he isn’t putting down his writer’s pen. As we look forward to the novels he plans to write, we can read the books that he’s already authored.

“Becoming Dad” (2006)

“Before I Forget” (2009)

“Forward From This Moment” (2009)

“Freeman” (2012)

“Grant Park” (2015)

“Racism in America” (2016)

“The Last Thing You Surrender” (2019)

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