Kevin Sack, Emerson Fellow, is writing a book, his first, about the 200-year history of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, site of the 2015 massacre of nine congregants by a young white supremacist. He is a longtime correspondent and senior writer with the New York Times, specializing in long-form narrative and investigative projects. He also has served as bureau chief in Atlanta and Albany and has written extensively on domestic politics and race relations. Sack has shared in three Pulitzer Prizes during a more than three decade career, which includes stints with the Los Angeles Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, attended Duke University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.