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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.
A book tour is a promotion for a newly published book in which the author tours a region to do bookselling, present to the media, and meet the people who would read the book. Three objectives of any presentation on a book tour are to entertain the audience, serve the interest of whichever institution is hosting the presentation, and to sell ...
Mid-Columbia Libraries is giving away free copies of the author’s earlier books, while supplies last. Popular international fantasy author to kick off new book tour in Tri-Cities Skip to main ...
Nov. 2—Selling out before the invitations were even sent, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health and the Literacy Coalition of the Permian Basin ...
David Hare, based on the book by Katherine Boo: Olivier Theatre, National Theatre. 10 November 2014 Broadcast as part of National Theatre Live [24] The Amen Corner: James Baldwin: Olivier Theatre, National Theatre. 11 June 2013 [25] Table: Tanya Ronder The Shed, National Theatre: 9 April 2013 [25] Cabaret: John Kander, Fred Ebb & Joe Masteroff ...
Tickets for the tour go on sale on October 10 at 12 p.m. ET. And because, as the synopsis for Part I points out, "It is a life too immense for only one book," there's a second book coming in 2025.
The 2015 book fair featured Chinese publishers for the first time. [8] [9] For a time, DigiCon from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) ran concurrently with BEA. [10] However, the IDPF was absorbed into the W3C in 2017; [11] no further DigiCon events have been announced, though the W3C holds other conferences on digital publishing.