Michel Martin

Host, NPR's Weekend Edition

Washington, D.C.

About Michel

Michel Martin is a journalist and host of NPR's Weekend Edition. He has been a correspondent for NPR since 1998 and has covered a wide range of topics, including politics, social issues, and culture. Martin has won several awards for his reporting, including multiple Peabody Awards.

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Gisèle Pelicot’s 'A Hymn to Life' is both a memoir and an act of ultimate defiance

NPR's Book of the Day•Feb 18, 2026•8:05•host

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s new book 'The First Eight' traces the history of his predecessors

NPR's Book of the Day•Dec 16, 2025•7:59•host

Michel Martin

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NPR's Book of the Day

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Recent Appearances

Gisèle Pelicot’s 'A Hymn to Life' is both a memoir and an act of ultimate defiance

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s new book 'The First Eight' traces the history of his predecessors

Deborah Willis on her seminal history of Black photography, reissued 25 years later

A Claire McCardell biography and an AI sci-fi are among NPR’s top book picks of 2025

Julian Brave Noisecat’s 'We Survived the Night' is part memoir, part Native history

Karine Jean-Pierre’s new memoir 'Independent' explains why she left the Democrats

Revisiting Charles Portis’ True Grit

In 'Dream School,' Jeff Selingo wants parents to rethink what makes a ‘good’ college

Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'

Through politics, fiction and her latest novel, Stacey Abrams aims to inspire action

'Trailblazer' is a memoir by Carol Moseley Braun, first Black woman elected to Senate

Ten years later, Ta-Nehisi Coates says 'Between the World and Me' is no longer his

In 'The Science of Revenge,' an expert explains why humans are hardwired for payback

In her new memoir, Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, tells her own story

'Happy Land' was inspired by a real-life kingdom of formerly enslaved people

Two new children's books view the natural world as a site of personal growth

'Dream Count' is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel in more than a decade

'Gather Me' and 'Subculture Vulture' are memoirs told through books and subcultures

Remembering Nikki Giovanni, poet and icon of the Black Arts Movement

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