Eli Saslow
Eli Eric Saslow (born May 15, 1982) is an American journalist, currently a writer-at-large for The New York Times.[2] He has also written for The Washington Post and ESPN The Magazine. He is a 2014 and a 2023 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a recipient of the George Polk award and other honors. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing in 2013, 2016 and 2017.[3] He is a Writers Guild of America screenwriter, and the co-writer for Four Good Days, which stars Mila Kunis and Glenn Close and was nominated for an Academy Award.[4][5] He has published three books, including the best-selling Rising Out of Hatred, which won the 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.[6]
Eli Saslow
May 15, 1982
Sportscaster Screenwriter [1]
2004–present
Pulitzer Prize (2014, 2023)
George Polk award (2013, 2020)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2019)
Education[edit]
He attended Heritage High School, in Littleton, Colorado, graduating in 2000,[7][8] and is a 2004 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.[9]
Work[edit]
Saslow's 2018 book Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist was the winner of the 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction.[10]
He is the author of Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President (Random House, 2012), and four of his works have appeared in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing.[11][12]
Personal life[edit]
Saslow is married and lives in Portland, Oregon. He has three children.[13]