The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream

(Grove Press) This biography of Allard Lowenstein explores the one-term Congressman who was active in politics in the 1960s and ’70s recruiting whites into the Civil Rights movement and leading opposition to the renomination of President Johnson. Cummings’ unpublished novel Ibo Landing received the 2008 Eaton Literary Agency Award.