Wil Haygood

Wil HaygoodWil Haygood was born in Columbus, Ohio on September 19, 1954. 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. 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. Since then, Haygood has written a book about Allen, called “The Butler: A Witness to History”.