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    Difficult but Essential: On Edward Ball

    by Sara Eckel Jul 22, 2020 4 minutes

    While reporting his sixth book, Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball put himself in a deeply uncomfortable position. He met three descendants of Black Creole men who were badly beaten at a massacre that killed 200 people in New Orleans in 1866. He says he had to explain to them that one of his ancestors was a member of a white militia in the city at the time and probably took part in the atrocities.

    “It was stressful,” Ball says via Skype from his home in New Haven, Conn. “I had to share with this family that my people may have been part of the

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