Rachel Ghansah Dylann Roof

Last week i won the national magazine award for feature writing.

Rachel ghansah dylann roof.

Where she spent three. What happened to you dylann rachel kaadzi ghansah spent months in south carolina searching for an answer to those questions speaking with roof s mother father friends former teachers and victims family members all in an effort to unlock what went into creating one of the coldest killers of our time. Today ghansah was awarded the 2018 pulitzer prize for feature writing for her intimate searing portrait of mother emanuel shooter and white supremacist dylann roof in gq magazine. Here is the award citation.

Rachel kaadzi ghansah spoke with dylan roof s family friends former teachers and the victims families to unlock what created one of the coldest killers of our time. By rachel kaadzi ghansah. Hear rachel kaadzi ghansah discuss this article which won the pulitzer prize on the longform podcast. She won a pulitzer prize for feature writing in 2018 for her profile of white supremacist and mass murderer dylann roof as well as a national magazine award she was also a national magazine award finalist in 2014 for her profile of elusive comedian dave chappelle her first book the explainers and the explorers is.

A most american terrorist. In 2016 rachel kaadzi ghansah ba culture and media 06 traveled to charleston s c. Dylann roof was. The making of dylann roof i decided that if he would not tell us his story then i would read more.

Essayist rachel kaadzi ghansah is the author of the haunting portrait of dylann roof the murderer who calmly walked into charleston s c s mother emanuel ame church and killed nine people inside. He s the white man convicted of murdering eight black parishioners and their pastor at charleston s historic. Rachel kaadzi ghansah born 1982 is an american award winning essayist. Rachel kaadzi ghansah s reporting on the culture of white supremacy that shaped dylann roof was emotionally morally and even physically brave while her writing was bracing startling and brilliantly structured.

Rachel kaadzi ghansah went to south carolina to write about the trial of dylann roof. A burgeoning bald patch almost made him look like a young demented monk with a tonsure. Rachel kaadzi ghansah gq aug 2017 50 min permalink.