Eli Saslow
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Born | Littleton, Colorado, U.S. | May 15, 1982
Education | Syracuse University |
Occupation | Sportscaster Screenwriter [1] |
Years active | 2004–present |
Employer(s) | The Washington Post ESPN The Magazine |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize (2014, 2023) George Polk award (2013, 2020) Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2019) |
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]
Education
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
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
Saslow is married and lives in Portland, Oregon. He has three children.[13]
Books
- Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience[14]
- Saslow, Eli (2012). Ten Letters: the Stories Americans Tell Their President. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0307742551..
- Saslow, Eli (2018). Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist. New York: Penguin Random House. ISBN 9780385542869..
References
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/05/24/mila-kunis-rodrigo-garca-eli-saslow-four-good-days/ [bare URL]
- ^ "Welcoming Eli Saslow to The Times". The New York Times. 27 December 2022. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ "2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Mila Kunis, Rodrigo García & Eli Saslow, "Four Good Days"". Washington Post. 2021-05-25. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ Four Good Days (2020) - Awards - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-06-13 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "2019 Awards – Dayton Literary Peace Prize". Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ "Eli Saslow '00 Wins Pulitzer Prize". Colorado Academy. 15 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-10-18. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Graduate of Littleton's Heritage High wins 2014 Pulitzer Prize". Denver Post. May 6, 2014. Archived from the original on February 5, 2023. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- ^ "Q&A: Eli Saslow - Syracuse University Magazine". Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
- ^ "Award Winners". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Eli Saslow". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Williams, Paige (10 June 2013). ""Why's this so good?" No. 78: Eli Saslow and "Into the Lonely Quiet"". Nieman Storyboard. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "After the Storm". Tablet Magazine. 31 January 2019. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Saslow, Eli (2021-09-28). Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-54700-0.
External links
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- Living people
- 1982 births
- People from Littleton, Colorado
- American male journalists
- Jewish American journalists
- The Washington Post journalists
- Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners
- S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
- James Beard Foundation Award winners
- Colorado Academy alumni
- 21st-century American Jews