A distinctive collaboration between your American Civil Liberties Union and authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, Fight of the Hundred years features original articles by the most influential writers at work today—including Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Marlon Adam, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, Jesmyn Ward, and more—each writing about a landmark ACLU case, published with the 100th anniversary of the business.

The American Civil Liberties Union began as a small group of idealists about Combat of the Century: Writers Think about a century of Landmark ACLU Cases and visionaries, including Helen Keller and Jane Addams. A hundred years after its founding, the ACLU continues to be the nation’s leading defender from the rights and freedoms assured by the Constitution.

In collaboration using the ACLU, prize-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the ACLU’s 100-year history. In Fight of the Hundred years, bestselling and award-winning writers present unique literary assumes historic decisions like Brown v. Table of Education, the Scopes trial, Roe v. Wade, and more. Contributors consist of Geraldine Brooks, Michael Cunningham, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman, Lauren Groff, Marlon Adam, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Morgan Parker, Ann Patchett, Salman Rushdie, George Saunders, Elizabeth Strout, Jesmyn Ward, Meg Wolitzer, and more.

Fight from the Century displays how throughout American history, pivotal legal battles, fought primarily by underdogs and their lawyers, have advanced civil privileges and public justice. The ACLU continues to be integral in this technique. The essays range from personal memoir to narrative history, each shedding light on the task of one exceptional organization since it shaped a country.

Chabon and Waldman are donating their progress to the ACLU as well as the contributors are forgoing payment.