Wil Haygood

Wil Haygood is currently a staff writer for the Style section of the Washington Post. For seventeen years he was a feature writer, and national and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. He has received numerous awards, including the Sunday Magazine Editors Award, which he received twice; the New England Associated Press Award; the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Foreign Reporting (which he also won twice); the James Thurber Literary Fellowship; an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship; and a Yaddo Fellowship. He is also the author of Two on the River; King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; and The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir, which was awarded the Great Lakes Book Award. He lives in Washington, D.C.