Lawrence Goldstone is the author or co-author of two dozen books of both fiction and non-fiction, six with his wife Nancy. He has written extensively on Constitutional law and equal rights. His On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravishing of African American Voting Rights won the highly prestigious Lillian Smith Book Award. Other books include Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 ; Dark Bargain: Slavery Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution ; and The Activist: John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the Myth of Judicial Review . He currently writes a weekly opinion column for The Fulcrum . Goldstone's fiction has also been highly praised. His first novel, Rights , won a New American Writing Award, and his third, Anatomy of Deception , was a New York Times notable mystery.

Goldstone has been widely interviewed on both radio and television, with appearances on National Public Radio's Fresh Air , To the Best of Our Knowledge , and The Faith Middleton Show ; The Takeaway (PRI); Make It Plain with Mark Thompson (SiriusXM); Tavis Smiley (PBS); and CSPAN's BookTV . Goldstone's work has been profiled in The New York Times , The Toronto Star , Salon , Slate , and numerous regional newspapers. His articles, reviews, and opinion pieces have appeared in, among other periodicals, The Atlantic , New Republic , Boston Globe , Los Angeles Times , Wall Street Journal , Salon , Chicago Tribune , Miami Herald , Hartford Courant , and Berkshire Eagle . Goldstone holds a Ph.D. in constitutional history from the New School.