Adam Kirsch
The article focuses on U.S. President Barack Obama as a writer. Topics include the presidential memoir that Obama could write after his term of office ends on January 20, 2017, his authentic interests in contemporary literature which earned him a reputation as a powerful writer with his coming-of-age memoir "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," and the significance of having a president with the empathy and insight of a writer in mending the divide between literature and politics.