Kristen Green is the author of two nonfiction books, THE DEVIL'S HALF ACRE (April 2022) and the New York Times bestseller SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY. She has worked as a journalist for two decades for papers including the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Boston Globe.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE REVIEWS
"A gripping narrative"​ -New York Times​

"A gift to a new generation of readers"​ -The Washington Post

"This intimate and candid account.... personalizes politics, jangles nerves and opens minds."​
-Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Green's work brims with real-life detail from the journalist's eye and ear and joins the likes of Diane McWhorter's CARRY ME HOME in further developing the dimensions of the South's desegregation struggle"​ -Library Journal

"Green feels compelled to stare down her past, and she does so with uncommon humanity."​
-New York 1 News

"A potent introduction to a nearly forgotten part of the civil rights movement and a personalized reminder of what it was truly about."​ -Kirkus Reviews, (starred review)

"Absorbing. . . . A merger of history both lived and studied."​ -Publishers Weekly

"Green has rendered a deeply moving account of historical injustice and a personal search for redemption for her family's role in it."​ -Booklist, (starred review)

"A vivid reminder of how things were, not so very long ago."​ -Harvard Magazine