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]
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]
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]
Saslow is married and lives in Portland, Oregon. He has three children. [13]