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Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) 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 .
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is a 2012 non-fiction book by Katherine Boo.The book chronicles the lives of residents in Annawadi, a slum near the Mumbai airport, offering an intimate portrait of poverty, inequality, and resilience in modern India.
Katherine Te Rongokahira Parata (1873–1939), New Zealand woman of mana; Katherine Vose Parker (1888–1983), American Republican politician; Katherine Parkinson (born 1977/1978), English actress; Katherine Parr (actress) (1921–2009), British actress; Katherine Paston (1578–1629), English gentlewoman; Katherine Paterson (born 1932 ...
Katherine Boo: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity: Winner [100] [39] [37] [101] 2013 George Packer: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America: Winner [102] [103] [104] 2014 Evan Osnos: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China: Winner [105] [106] 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
The Washington Post, notably for the work of Katherine Boo that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city's group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms.
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", [a] is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are ...
Kathleen Alice Mattea was born June 21, 1959, in South Charleston, West Virginia.She and her two brothers grew up in nearby Cross Lanes. [2] Their father worked in a chemical plant and her mother was a homemaker. [3]
After Stella's death, Ivan begins to remember his life before the Big Top Mall and what it was like to have freedom if only to have stories to tell to Ruby. While Mack, the owner of the Big Top Mall is trying to train Ruby to do tricks, Ivan witnessed first-hand the abuse to which she is subjected and starts to decide how to keep his promise to ...