Jill Leovy
Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.[1] She is best known for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, her 2015 New York Times best-seller about homicide in Los Angeles.[2] Ghettoside was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award,[3] and it won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 85th Annual California Book Awards.[4] It also was honored with the Ridenhour Book Prize, the PEN Center USA Prize for research nonfiction and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Leovy's primary argument in Ghettoside is that more effort must been given to arresting and incarcerating perpetrators of inner-city murders, because "impunity for the murder of black men remained America’s great, though mostly invisible, race problem."[5]
Leovy spent 24 years as a reporter and editor for The Los Angeles Times.[6] Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic and the American Scholar.[7]
She is a senior fellow at USC's Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy [8] and a fellow of the Department of Sociology at Harvard.
Books[]
- Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (2015)
References[]
- ^ "Jill Leovy | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy". communicationleadership.usc.edu.
- ^ Gonnerman, Jennifer (January 21, 2015). "Jill Leovy's 'Ghettoside'" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "National Book Critics Circle: awards". bookcritics.org. Archived from the original on 2015-10-18. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "85th Annual California Book Awards | Commonwealth Club". www.commonwealthclub.org.
- ^ Gonnerman, Jennifer (2015-01-21). "Jill Leovy's 'Ghettoside'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
- ^ "Jill Leovy". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Articles by Jill Leovy | Freelance Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com.
- ^ "Award Winning Journalist and Bestselling Author Jill Leovy Joins CCLP as Senior Fellow | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy". communicationleadership.usc.edu.
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