Elon Homes and Schools for Children chose to give a signed copy of Giving Back as a gift to Dr. Ben Carson, world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, who was featured at the Education Matters fundraising luncheon this week.

Knowing that luminaries with gifts, achievements and biographies that inspire—like Dr. Carson, Marian Wright Edelman, Amiri Baraka, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others—now have Giving Back is a gift in and of itself.

Historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Poet Amiri Baraka

Actor Lamman Rucker