Gilbert King
American writer and photographer
Gilbert King is an American writer and photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Devil in the Grove. He also wrote and produced the Bone Valley podcast.
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American Born 1962 in Rockville Centre, United States
About Gilbert King
Gilbert King is an American writer and photographer, born in 1962. He is best known for Devil in the Grove, published in 2012, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2013. It was also a New York Times bestseller and a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His journalism on race, civil rights and capital punishment has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. In the 2019-2020 year he held a fellowship at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. King has also written The Execution of Willie Francis (2008) and Beneath a Ruthless Sun (2018). He wrote, produced and co-hosted Bone Valley, a narrative podcast released in 2022 about the Leo Schofield case. His photography has appeared in international editions of magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.