Katherine Boo
Investigative journalist and author
Katherine Boo is an American investigative journalist and New Yorker staff writer who has documented the lives of people living in poverty.
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American Born 1964 in Washington, D.C., United States
About Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003. Earlier she was a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, and her work there earned the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She was also named a MacArthur Fellow in 2002. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, published in 2012, was her first book. She spent more than three years reporting in the Annawadi slum in Mumbai for it. The book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as prizes from PEN, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards and the New York Public Library.