All-Class Conversation with Kate Boo

November 18, 2015
6:00pm
Columbia Journalism School
2950 Broadway
New York, NY, 10026, United States

In a conversation led by Dean Steve Coll, Kate Boo will explore the many challenging questions of reporting craft, storytelling and ethics raised by this influential book. 

Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. She learned to report at the alternative weekly, Washington City Paper, after which she worked as a writer and co-editor of The Washington Monthly magazine. Over the years, her reporting from disadvantaged communities has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. Her 2012 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, as well as the National Book Award for Nonfiction.