Katie McCabe
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Katie McCabe

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Washington writer Katie McCabe, the co-author, with Dovey Roundtree, of Mighty Justice, is a nationally recognized non-fiction writer whose work on unsung heroes, many of them in the African American community, has garnered wide attention, both in print and in film. Her National Magazine Award-winning Washingtonian article on black cardiac surgery pioneer Vivien Thomas, "Like Something the Lord Made," formed the basis for the 2004 Emmy and 2005 Peabody Award-winning HBO film Something the Lord Made, on which McCabe consulted. The film was one of the highest rated original movies in HBO history. The American Film Institute, which named "Something the Lord Made" the Best TV Movie of 2004, called it "a revelation...a bittersweet story that is an important tool for America as it continues to search for a public vocabulary to discuss issues of race." That search has defined a large part of Katie McCabe's work, bringing her, in 1995, to take on the story of the late civil rights pioneer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, whom she discovered when reading a Washington Post piece on Roundtree's collaboration with actress Cicely Tyson for the television series "Sweet Justice." McCabe profiled Roundtree in a Washingtonian magazine piece entitled "She Had a Dream," which won the 2003 Dateline Award for Feature Writing from the DC Society of Professional Journalists. Mighty Justice (originally published in 2009 with the title Justice Older than the Law) is the product of a 12-year collaboration between McCabe and Roundtree which began in Washington shortly before Roundtree's retirement to Charlotte in 1996 and survived the obstacles of distance, of Roundtree's blindness and her failing health. The Association of Black Women Historians awarded the book the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize for the best publication on an African American woman, noting that McCabe's innovative use of narrative techniques typical of fiction "aid in connecting with the person and the pathos of Dovey" and "enhance our understanding of the importance of storytelling as biography." New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia O'Brien, commenting on the immersive, intimate quality of the writing, wrote that "McCabe's narrative skills pull one in as seductively as a novel."
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