David Jeffries Garrow (born May 11, 1953) is an American author and democratic socialist.
He wrote the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
He also wrote Liberty and Sexuality (1994), a history of the legal struggles over abortion and reproductive rights in the U.S.
prior to the Roe v.
Wade decision, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017), and other works.