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]

• Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience^[14]
• Saslow, Eli (2012). Ten Letters: the Stories Americans Tell Their President. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0307742551..
• Saslow, Eli (2018). Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist. New York: Penguin Random House. ISBN 9780385542869..

• "Pulitzer winner dug beyond politics to explore impact of food stamps on American families", appearance on PBS NewsHour