Kevin Sack

Kevin Sack is a veteran journalist and author who has written broadly about national affairs for more than four decades and has shared in three Pulitzer Prizes. His forthcoming book, “Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church,” will be published by Crown on June 3, 2025, two weeks before the tenth anniversary of the racist massacre at the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the South. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, and a graduate of Duke University, Sack spent thirty years on the staff of The New York Times, where he specialized in writing long-form narrative and investigative reports, often related to race. Among them was the lead story in the 2000 series “How Race Is Lived in America,” which won the Pulitzer for national reporting and was later published in book form. Sack also has written for the Los Angeles Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine. He was a 2019 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America. Sack’s course — “America’s Racial Narrative: Approaches to Telling the Story” – will use race relations as a template to explore and practice a variety of genres of nonfiction writing.