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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 ...
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 ...
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 Book of Souls World Tour was a concert tour by Iron Maiden, held in support of their sixteenth studio album, The Book of Souls. During the first leg of the tour the band played shows in 36 countries across six continents, which included their debut performances in El Salvador, Lithuania and China.
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]
This book is divided into three parts. #1 - Elfangor's Journey, #2 - Alloran's Choice, and #3 - An Alien Dies. Each part was originally released as a separate book to school book clubs. December 1997: c. 1976, the 1980s, and c. Spring 1997: Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul: ISBN 0-590-10971-5: 14: The Unknown: January 1998: Horse (Minneapolis Max ...