Michelle Obama: The Biography

With expert reporting, a compelling narrative style, and an eye for detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle Obama from her childhood on Chicago's segregated South Side to her role as First Lady in the White House. He explores her trials at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially troubled 1980s. He also explores the dilemmas she faced as she worked hard to build her career in Chicago, raised a family, and helped her husband become President of the United States.

From the lessons she learned in Chicago to the ideas she champions as one of the world’s most admired women, Michelle Obama is a refreshing and compelling account of a remarkable, powerful woman.

Peter Slevin has written extensively about Barack and Michelle Obama, and the political campaigns and policy debates in America during his career as a journalist. He worked for The Washington Post for ten years and is currently a professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. His biography Michelle Obama was nominated for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and was included in Booklist's Top Ten Biographies of 2015.