Andrew Carroll

Andrew Carroll is an American author, editor, activist, and historian. He is best known as the author of the 1999 New York Times bestselling Letters of a Nation A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters and the 2001 New York Times bestselling book War Letters Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, which was later turned into an episode of the television program American Experience.

Carroll was born in Washington, D.C., to Thomas Edmund and Marea Grace Carroll on September 27, 1969. He attended Columbia University in New York City, receiving his bachelors degree in history in 1993. In May 1992, while a junior at Columbia, Carroll was inspired by a lecture by the Joseph Brodsky to found the American Poetry and Literacy Project . Meeting in a Greenwich Village caf in late 1992, Carroll and Brodsky decided that the APLP would distribute poetry books for free to members of the public. Carroll, APLPs executive director, persuaded the BookoftheMonth Club to donate thousands of copies of poetry books to the APLP. The books were distributed in hotels, hospitals, and homeless shelters and aboard airlines. By 1994, more than 12,500 poetry books had been distributed. Another 15,000 books were given away in 1997. Carroll went on a nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets in 1998, promoting the APLP and distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops,

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