Katherine Boo

American journalist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1964 · age 62

Katherine J. "Kate" Boo 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.

Katherine Boo is read about 37 times a day, in 7 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 25 August 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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2015Elijah Parish Lovejoy AwardAward2012National Book AwardAwardNational Book Award for NonfictionAward2007Berlin PrizeAward2002The Hillman Prize for Magazine JournalismAward2000MacArthur Fellows ProgramAwardPulitzer Prize for Public ServiceAward1964Born12 August 1964

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Awards

Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award2015

National Book Award2012

National Book Award for Nonfiction2012

Berlin Prize2007

The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism2002

MacArthur Fellows Program2000

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service2000

About this person

She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 2003. Her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity won nonfiction prizes from PEN, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in addition to the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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United States