Gilbert King (born February 22, 1962) is an American writer and photographer, known best as the author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize.

[1] He is also the writer, producer, and co-host of Bone Valley, the award-winning narrative podcast based on the Leo Schofield case, and released in 2022 by Lava For Good.

"[6] Booklist notes how "Drawing on extensive research and interviews, King offers a compelling page-turner that examines American racism and justice in the region.

In 1949 four young African-American men were falsely accused of raping a seventeen-year-old white farm girl in Groveland, Florida and were convicted by an all-white jury, at a time in which Jim Crow laws were still in effect.

Attorney Thurgood Marshall, then the special counsel with the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, represented the Groveland Boys, taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately overturned the guilty verdicts.

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.

The story depicts the struggles of reporter Mabel Norris Reese, who is targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and Sheriff Willis McCall, and a young lawyer, Richard Graham, and their efforts to prove that Daniels is an innocent man.

[10] The New York Times Book Review wrote that Beneath a Ruthless Sun"exposes the sinister complexity of American racism...with grace and sensitivity, and [King's] narrative never flags.

Bone Valley was released in September 2022 by Lava for Good and was named on numerous Podcast of the Year lists, including New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Guardian.

The Atlantic called Bone Valley "a true-crime marvel, standing alongside 'The Innocent Man' by Pamela Colloff, in the pantheon of reportage about wrongful convictions."

While The Guardian described it as "Dogged and meticulous, with a spine of moral certainty, it makes other true crime podcasts look lazy simply through its completeness…a grinding indictment of the U.S. criminal justice system."