Gilbert King is an American author and journalist specializing in race and justice in the twentieth-century American South. His Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He followed it with Beneath a Ruthless Sun (2018) and Bone Valley (2025), drawn from his investigative podcast of the same name. A former photographer, he also wrote The Execution of Willie Francis and earlier nonfiction and photography books.
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Gilbert King is an American author and journalist specializing in race and justice in the twentieth-century American South. His Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He followed it with Beneath a Ruthless Sun (2018) and Bone Valley (2025), drawn from his investigative podcast of the same name. A former photographer, he also wrote The Execution of Willie Francis and earlier nonfiction and photography books.
