Gilbert Scott Heron bol jedným z najvplyvnejších spisovateľov svojej generácie, ktorého diela prennikavo skúmajú témy identity, politiky a umenia. Jeho rané romány, ovplyvnené búrlivou politickou klímou doby, odrážajú hlboké porozumenie sociálnym nepokojom a ašpiráciám. Heronov literárny štýl je známy svojou naliehavosťou a inováciami, často prelína rôzne formy vyjadrovania. Okrem písania sa venoval aj hudbe a rapu, čím ďalej rozšíril svoju umeleckú pôsobnosť.
'Leave it to Scott-Heron to save some of his best for last . . . He's a real writer, a word man, and [The Last Holiday] is as wriggling and vital in its way as Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One' New York Times
A body lies on New York's West 17th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. A crowd gathers, horrified, curious, staring at the corpse on the pavement. It is July 12, 1969, and John Lee is dead. This is the story of John Lee's murder in the words of four men who knew him.
Sutton University, West Virginia, is one of the last black universities in the US to wise up to the changing attitudes of the 1960s. But MJUMBE Members of Justice United for Meaningful Black Education intend to put things right. They don't wait for the revolution to be televised, they get it on.