Nick Chiles

Nick Chiles is a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, including three New York Times bestsellers he wrote with R&B icon Bobby Brown, civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, and gospel legend Kirk Franklin. He is the co-author with Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx of his parenting memoir, Act Like You Got Some Sense. With Atlanta attorney Robbin Shipp he wrote Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and...See more

Nick Chiles is a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, including three New York Times bestsellers he wrote with R&B icon Bobby Brown, civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, and gospel legend Kirk Franklin. He is the co-author with Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx of his parenting memoir, Act Like You Got Some Sense. With Atlanta attorney Robbin Shipp he wrote Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System , which was a finalist for a 2015 NAACP Image Award. Chiles served as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, and magazine and website editor-in-chief during more than three decades in journalism, winning nearly 20 major awards--including a 1992 Pulitzer Prize as part of a New York Newsday team. He also worked as a literary agent with the Manhattan-based Aevitas Creative Management. He has served as a professor at Columbia Journalism School and at Princeton University and is currently a journalism professor at the University of Georgia. Chiles earned a bachelors degree from Yale and an MFA from University of Georgia. See less