Pulitzer Prize-winning DUMBO author pens highly anticipated nonfiction book
Gilbert King’s “Devil in the Grove,” winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, was a landmark work of investigative nonfiction. Heralded as “must-read, cannot-put-down history” (New York Times), King delivered a “powerful and well-told drama of Southern injustice” (Chicago Tribune) as he unspooled the saga of the Groveland Four, a group of black men falsely convicted of raping a young white woman in central Florida. Praised Salon: “King recreates an important yet overlooked moment in American history with a chilling, atmospheric narrative that reads more like a Southern Gothic novel than a work of history.”
The long-buried evidence uncovered by Gilbert King was shocking. His revelatory book spurned renewed interest and outrage about the racism, corruption, injustice and violence endemic to Florida law enforcement and justice systems. At long last, this past spring the Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution apologizing to the families of the Groveland Four, and the state moved to expedite the exonerations of the wrongly accused men.
King will present his new book at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Thursday, July 19 at 6:30 p.m. with a talk, Q&A and book signing.