Alex Kotlowitz

There Are No Children Here

The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780385265560
• ISBN-10: 0385265565
• Artikelnr.: 21322434

Autorenporträt

ALEX KOTLOWITZ is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was awarded the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction. For his documentary film, The Interrupters, he received an Emmy and a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Kotlowitz’s work, which has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and on public radio’s This American Life, has been honored with two Peabody awards, two duPont-Columbia University awards, and a George Polk Award. He is a writer in residence at Northwestern University. Kotlowitz lives with his wife, Maria Woltjen, and their two children, Mattie and Lucas, just outside of Chicago.