Stacey Abrams is widely considered one of the most prominent political power broker in the United States. She was the first African-American woman to become the House Minority leader in her home state of Georgia and the first African-American woman to be nominated by a major party for State Governor. Her fight against voter suppression helped win Georgia for the Democrats and helped Joe Biden secure the presidency. As Biden himself has said, ‘Nobody, nobody in America has done more for the right to vote than Stacey’. And as if that weren’t enough for this remarkable 47-year-old woman, she has also written two political books and eight romantic novels.

In June 2021 she came to Intelligence Squared to mark the publication of her new thriller While Justice Sleeps, a page-turner set in the corridors of political and judicial power, which has already been a No 1 New York Times bestseller. Abrams will be in conversation with the internationally bestselling novelist Tayari Jones, whose book, An American Marriage, about the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, dominated the top ten fiction list on both sides of the Atlantic for many months and has been praised by Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey. 

Praise for While Justice Sleeps: 

‘Glossy, gritty, breathlessly suspenseful, effortlessly authentic, and altogether wonderful’ – Lee Child 

‘Stacey Abrams is a true novelist, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller. It’s fast-paced and full of surprises–a terrific read’ –  Scott Turow