He loves his mom, has a strong Christian faith, and wants to find a nice girl to settle down with and marry. In Ray’s early life, he lives in Praco, Alabama. She lives with her family in NYC, where she writes, makes things, and needs to get more sleep.Anthony Ray Hinton, who goes by Ray, is the author and protagonist of The Sun Does Shine. She is the editor of The Hero Next Door, a 2019 anthology from We Need Diverse Books. She is the co-author of the NAACP Image Award nominated Two Naomis, a Junior Library Guild selection, and its sequel, Naomis Too. Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of 8th Grade Superzero, a Notable Book for A Global Society and Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. She lives in Santa Cruz, California with her husband, two dogs, and six children. She has an MFA in creative writing from UC Irvine and has collaborated on more than ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sun Does Shine and Designing Your Life. Lara Love Hardin is the COO and Editorial Director of Idea Architects, a creative book and media agency creating a wiser, healthier, more just world. Released in April 2015, Hinton now speaks widely on prison reform and the power of faith and forgiveness.

With themes both timely and timeless, Hinton’s memoir tells his dramatic 30-year journey and shows how you can take away a man’s freedom, but you can’t take away his imagination, humor, or joy.ĪNTHONY RAY HINTON spent nearly thirty years on death row for crimes he didn’t commit. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon-transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates.

But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row.

He spent his first three years on Death Row in despairing silence-angry and full of hatred for all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free.īut with a criminal justice system with the cards stacked against Black men, Hinton was sentenced to death. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers, with a revised foreword by Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year

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