Katherine

Katherine Boo

Katherine
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American journalist

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Katherine Boo
Communications
#1074
World Rank
#1650
Historical Rank
#537
USA Rank
Journalism
#154
World Rank
#172
Historical Rank
#113
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Katherine "Kate" J. Boo is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the MacArthur "genius" award and the National Book Award for Nonfiction , 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.

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