You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America Virtual Dinner Book Club

Author and journalist Paul Kix’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, ESPN, The Wall Street Journal and more. His first book, The Saboteur, was a nonfiction bestseller about the amazing thrilling true-life story of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, a member of the French aristocracy who became a resistance fighter during World War II. The 2023 film, The Accidental Getaway Driver, is based on Kix’s thrilling 2017 feature article for GQ about a man abducted by three prison escapees.

His newest book, You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live, will be discussed in this virtual book club. The deeply researched book takes readers, in ways never explored before, behind the scenes of the momentous 1963 Birmingham Campaign – 10 weeks that shaped the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.