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Katherine Boo

(1964) Journalist United States

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Katherine Boo is a journalist from the United States, best known for Behind the beautiful forevers.

Quick Facts About Katherine Boo

Born
August 12, 1964
Nationality
United States
Profession
Journalist
Notable works
Behind the beautiful forevers
Spouse
Sunil Khilnani

About Katherine Boo

Katherine J. "Kate" Boo is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has received the MacArthur Fellowship (2002), the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012), and her work earned the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Washington Post. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 2003. Her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity won nonfiction prizes from PEN, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in addition to the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

National Book Award Pulitzer Prize for Public Service MacArthur Fellows Program National Book Award for Nonfiction Berlin Prize Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism

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