He was also kidnapped and ransomed by rebels in Somalia. While Wil was an investigative reporter, he traveled all around the globe, including South Africa (where he witnessed Nelson Mandela’s release from prison), India, France, and Germany. In the year 1984, he became a staff writer at the Boston Globe, where he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and stayed there for several years before he became a writer for the Washington Post in the year 2002. He graduated from Miami in the year 1976 with an urban planning degree, however exhibiting a knack for storytelling early on, he started in journalism at the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette and two years later, he moved on to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Like in high school, Wil was determined to earn a spot on Miami’s basketball team, and during the 1973-74 season, he was a proud member of the Miami University junior varsity team.
Haygood is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a professor at Miami University. However at the last minute, this butler, who had served three presidents, refused to be interviewed, because the man’s family apparently didn’t want his story out against the parallel story of President Barack Obama’s election. Since then, Haygood has written a book about Allen, called “The Butler: A Witness to History”.Īs he was getting interviewed on Conversations with Allan Wolper on WBGO 88.3 FM, he revealed that he’d found another White House butler.
The article later served as the basis for the movie “The Butler”, released in 2013 and was directed by Lee Daniels, and starred Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. He is a journalist and author who is best known for his 2008 article called “A Butler Well Served by this Election” in The Washington Post about Eugene Allen. Wil Haygood was born in Columbus, Ohio on September 19, 1954.
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