He is the winner of the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism, as well as fellowships and grants from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Center for Arts Criticism. The Minneapolis StarTribune said of his latest book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, “Jack El-Hai's biography of Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley provides a riveting look at the top Nazis awaiting trial--and reveals the dangerous power of intimacy with evil.” Jack El-Hai lives in Minneapolis.