Pulitzer Prize for Public Service; MacArthur Fellow, National Book Award for Nonfiction
Spouse
Sunil Khilnani
Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the MacArthur "genius" award (2002) and 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.
Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won...
Undercity is a non-fiction book written by the Pulitzer Prize-winner KatherineBoo in 2012. It won the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book...
(10 October 2012). "Book review: 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers,' by KatherineBoo". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 23 November 2012...
Winner in Public Service: The Washington Post, notably for the work of KatherineBoo". The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University. Retrieved March 4, 2017...
Packer. Along with Canada, the panelists included Abhijit Banerjee, KatherineBoo, and Jose Antonio Vargas. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New...
Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Winner KatherineBoo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity...
2018. "Pulitzer Prize awarded to Barnard alumna Jhumpa Lahiri ’89; KatherineBoo ’88 cited in public service award to The Washington Post" Archived February...
Bonnie Bassler, molecular biologist Ann M. Blair, intellectual historian KatherineBoo, journalist Paul Ginsparg, physicist David B. Goldstein, energy conservation...
Packer. Along with Canada, the panelists included Abhijit Banerjee, KatherineBoo, and Jose Antonio Vargas. Canada's first book, Fist Stick Knife Gun:...
Street Journal, New York Times John Berryman – Pulitzer Prize for poetry KatherineBoo – Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Louis Bromfield – Pulitzer Prize...
State Championship team featured in the 2000 film Remember the Titans KatherineBoo[better source needed] – journalist Daniel Patrick Boyd – Convicted for...
affiliated with the New America Foundation in the early 2000s included KatherineBoo, Steven Clemons, James Fallows, Maya MacGuineas, Walter Russell Mead...
co-author of "Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards" KatherineBoo, writer for The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Marcus Brauchli...
Live Behind the Beautiful Forevers David Hare, based on the book by KatherineBoo Olivier Theatre, National Theatre 10 November 2014 Broadcast as part...
empathy Packer compares a passage from Behind the Beautiful Forevers by KatherineBoo with the same text rewritten in inclusive language, and asks if equity...
take courses specially tailored for them. He is married to the writer KatherineBoo. Khilnani, Sunil (1993). Arguing Revolution: the intellectual left in...
or supervision." 2000: The Washington Post, "notably for the work of KatherineBoo that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city's group homes...
the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Won KatherineBoo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum...
Prize Board from 2013 to 2022, also serving as its co-chair (alongside KatherineBoo and Gail Collins) during the 2022 awards cycle. He is vice president...
Inc.; author whose books include a memoir of surviving breast cancer KatherineBoo (1988), recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 and the...
Retrieved November 15, 2012. "2012 National Book Awards Go to Erdrich, Boo, Ferry, Alexander". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved November 15, 2012. Leslie...
spent in Mumbai, including a stint in Arthur Road. Several scenes in KatherineBoo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers take place in the facility. Harsul Central...
Waldman The Submission Finalist 2012 Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds Winner KatherineBoo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity...
author, Between the World and Me; MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient KatherineBoo – Author, Behind the Beautiful Forevers; MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient...
November 27, 2012. The 10 Best Books were announced November 30, 2012. KatherineBoo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity...
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