Author

Books by Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo is an American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her reporting on group homes for the disabled in Washington DC and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, her first book, was published in 2012 and won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. She spent three years reporting in Annawadi before writing the book. Her work consistently focuses on poverty, corruption, and the gap between institutional promise and lived reality.