Gilbert King

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gilbert King
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1962(1962-02-22)
Age	62
Birthplace	Rockville Centre
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Gilbert King Biography

Gilbert King is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on February 22, 1962 in Rockville Centre, New York, United States. The Pulitzer Prize cited this book as “a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle.” Thomas Friedman of The New York Times described it as a “must-read, cannot-put-down history” and Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Diaz said it was “superb”. Devil in the Grove has also been shortlisted in the categories of The Chautauqua Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as The Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.

In in 2002 King was photographing coffee tables for various publishers. After a writer quit the project of a golfer’s antiques, King was asked if the researcher could take over as well as writing the novel. Over the next few months, King wrote various illustrated books, and also ghostwriting for prominent celebrities and experts in their field. Since 2008, King has released two major non-fiction works that examine the issues of US civil rights the past. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for his work on Thurgood Marshall, the attorney of NAACP Legal Defense Fund. NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the case of 1949’s Groveland Boys.

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (HarperCollins, 2012) explores another case of racial injustice. King won the annual Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2013 for this book.

Lionsgate acquired the film rights in 2013 and deemed the project as “high priority”.

King was a freelance writer in New York, King landed free editing and writing assignments for newspapers of small size and magazines. In 1991, he was offered the position of Macmillan Publishing as the assistant to the president and the publisher. While there as self-taught photographer and photographer, he was able to publish his beauty and fashion work in national magazines like Glamour, Jane, and Modern Bride, as well as international editions of magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Madame Figaro, and Marie Claire. Some of his clients included L’Oreal, Redken, Michael Kors as well as Thierry Mugler.

Gilbert King Net Worth

Gilbert King is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gilbert King 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1949, four young African American men were falsely accused of raping seventeen-year-old white farmgirl from Groveland, Florida and were indicted by an all-white jury. (Since the beginning of the century the black population was disenfranchised in the state and repressed under Jim Crow laws.) The attorney Thurgood Marshall, at the time special counsel for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, represented the Groveland Boys, taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, that ultimately ruled against and reaffirmed the guilt verdicts.

Gilbert Anthony King (born February 22nd in 1962) is an American photographer and writer. He is most well-known for his novel Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall and the Groveland Boys as well as The Dawn of a New America (2012) that won the Pulitzer Prize. His prior works include The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South (2008) and his most recent work is Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True story of violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found (2018).

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South (2008) was published by Basic Civitas Books. It explores the life of Willie Francis, a 16-year-old African-American youth in Louisiana who, in 1946, survived being sentenced to death by the electric chair. His case became an international media story. His case was taken on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Bertrand DeBlanc, a young Cajun lawyer. Francis had been convicted of killing DeBlanc’s good friend, Andrew Thomas. King reveals the backstage lobbying among the justices and Justice Frankfurter’s regret about voting against his conscience in favor of allowing the execution to proceed.

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Gilbert Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gilbert King celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.