Eli Saslow

Eli Saslow is an American journalist and staff writer at The Washington Post. He was born in the 1980s and studied journalism at the University of Florida. He is widely regarded as one of the finest long-form narrative journalists in the United States, a reporter whose work consistently illuminates the hidden lives of ordinary Americans. Saslow's nonfiction book Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist (2018) tells the story of Derek Black, the son of David Duke's close associate Don Black and himself once considered the heir apparent of the white nationalist movement in America, and the years-long journey by which he came to renounce that movement and its ideology. The book won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2019 and was widely praised for its fairness, its psychological depth, and its contribution to understanding the process of deradicalisation. Saslow received the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2014 for his series on food stamp recipients in America. He is also the author of Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President (2011). He lives in Washington, D.C.