Sandy Tolan is a journalist and author. He reports on Palestine and Israel.Currently, Tolan is a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He is a co-founder of the documentary production company Homelands Productions.Tolan's first book, "Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later," a memoir and portrait of American race relations told through professional baseball, was published in 2000. His second book, "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East," about the lives of a Palestinian and an Israeli who lived in the same house before and after 1948, was published in 2006. His third book, "Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in A Hard Land," about a Palestinian man’s dream to build a music school during the Israeli military occupation, was published in 2015.