Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the MacArthur "genius" award (2002) and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012), and her work earned the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Washington Post. 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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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Read the insightsPulitzer Prize winning journalist Katherine Boo writes a book that shows how a fractious community of slum dwellers survives and clings to hope amidst the challenges of caste, religious divides, economic tumult, and political uncertainty.