Mara Leveritt
Mara Leveritt is an American investigative reporter and author best known for examining the interaction of politics and criminal justice in certain serious crimes.[1][2] Her book The Boys on the Tracks,[3] about the unsolved murders of two teenage boys, has been called "a wrecking-ball tale of tragedy, malfeasance, and machine politics"[4] and "one of the most important examples of investigative journalism in modern Arkansas history."[5]
Devil's Knot,[6] the case of teenagers known as the West Memphis Three who were convicted of murdering three young boys, was "a riveting portrait of a down-at-the-heels, socially conservative rural town with more than its share of corruption and violence"[7] and "an indictment of a culture and legal system that failed to protect children as defendants or victims."[8][9] Publishers Weekly called her book Dark Spell[10] a "powerful look at how the wrong agenda can thoroughly undermine the justice system."[11]
Awards[]
Leveritt has been inducted into the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame[12] and awarded Arkansas's Booker Worthen Literary Prize (twice),[13] a Laman Writer's Fellowship,[14] Arkansas's Porter Prize,[15] and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.[16]
References[]
- ^ Rosenberg, Jacob. "She worked one of the real cases behind "True Detective." She says we still haven't learned its lessons".
- ^ https://www.pryorcenter.uark.edu/project.php?thisProject=1
- ^ Leveritt, Mara. The Boys on the Tracks, St Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-19841-8.
- ^ "THE BOYS ON THE TRACKS | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ^ Devil's Knot, Simon & Schuster, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7434-1759-4
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: DEVIL'S KNOT: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt, Author . Atria $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1759-4". PublishersWeekly.com.
- ^ Charles, Harry (Oct 15, 2002), "Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three." Library Journal, Vol 127 Issue 17, p 85, 1p.
- ^ Jordan, Tina; MacDonald, Ross (July 26, 2019). "50 States of True Crime (Published 2019)". The New York Times.
- ^ Dark Spell: Surviving the Sentence, Bird Call Press, 2014. ISBN 1499175752
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Dark Spell: Surviving the Sentence by Mara Leveritt, with Jason Baldwin. Bird Call Press, $20 trade paper (290p) ISBN 978-1-4991-7575-2".
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ^ "Meet the Laman fellowship winners". Arkansas Online. October 7, 2014.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ^ Brantley, Max (May 18, 2014). "Make that Dr. Mara Leveritt. UALR honors a famous grad".
- Living people
- Writers from Arkansas
- American non-fiction writers
- American investigative journalists