In April, 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a writer, composer, and performer, received a call from the White House. The new President and the First Lady were planning to host an evening of live performances centered on "the American experience," and Miranda was invited to participate. Miranda, who was twenty-nine, had spent the previous year starring in the Broadway musical "In the Heights," of which he was the composer and…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on February 2, 2015