"Who wrote a book called ""Dreams from my Father""?"
Dreams from My Father 50 years." Michiko Kakutani, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for "The New York Times", described it as "the most evocative, lyrical and candid autobiography written by a future president." The audiobook edition earned Obama the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2006. Five days before being sworn in as President in 2009, Obama secured a $500,000 advance for an abridged version of "Dreams from My Father" for middle-school-aged children. In 2011, "Time Magazine" listed the book on its top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race
Dreams from My Father political memoir biography. ... It's unique. It's his. There are no other ones like that." In an interview for "The Daily Beast," the author Philip Roth said he had read "Dreams from My Father" "with great interests," and commented that he had found it "well done and very persuasive and memorable." The book "may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician," wrote "Time" columnist Joe Klein. In 2008, "The Guardian"'s Rob Woodard wrote that "Dreams from My Father" "is easily the most honest, daring, and ambitious volume put out by a major US politician in the last