Toluse Olorunnipa
Contributor
INSTITUTION: The Washington Post
Websites : toluse.com, National Book Foundation
AMAZON: Author Page
Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa is the Pulitzer-Prize winning co-author of His Name is George Floyd, which won the 2023 prize for nonfiction. He is also the White House bureau chief for The Washington Post. As part of the White House press corps, he has reported from more than 25 countries and five continents. A graduate of Stanford University with degrees in sociology, Olorunnipa previously worked for Bloomberg News and the Miami Herald.
image: Lori Hoffman for Bloomberg L.P.
Primary Contributions (1)
George Floyd was a Black man whose videotaped death under the knee of a white police officer sparked protests in 2020, including some of the largest street demonstrations in U.S. history. Before his murder made him a global icon for racial justice, Floyd was an ordinary man whose hopes, strivings,…
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Publications (1)
His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner) One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (May 2022)
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER.
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina,...
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WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER.
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina,...