Thomas Dixon

Thomas Dixon Jr. (1864–1946) was an American novelist, playwright, and Baptist minister from North Carolina, best known for his racist novel The Clansman, which served as the basis for D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation. He was a prominent segregationist who romanticized white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan in his historical romance works.