Jill Leovy Explained

Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.[1] She is best known for the non-fiction book Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, her 2015 New York Times best-seller about homicide in Los Angeles.[2] Leovy argues in Ghettoside that more effort must be given to arresting and incarcerating perpetrators of inner-city murders, because "impunity for the murder of black men remained America’s great, though mostly invisible, race problem."[3]

Career

Leovy spent 24 years as a reporter and editor for The Los Angeles Times.[4] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The American Scholar.[5]

She is a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy[6] and a fellow with the Department of Sociology at Harvard.

Awards

Ghettoside was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award,[7] and it won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 85th Annual California Book Awards.[8] [9] The book was also honored with the Ridenhour Book Prize, the PEN Center USA Prize for research nonfiction and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jill Leovy | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. communicationleadership.usc.edu.
  2. Web site: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’. Jennifer. Gonnerman. January 21, 2015. NYTimes.com.
  3. News: Gonnerman. Jennifer. 2015-01-21. Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-04-27. 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: Jill Leovy. Los Angeles Times.
  5. Web site: Articles by Jill Leovy | Freelance Journalist | Muck Rack. muckrack.com.
  6. Web site: Award Winning Journalist and Bestselling Author Jill Leovy Joins CCLP as Senior Fellow | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. communicationleadership.usc.edu.
  7. Web site: National Book Critics Circle: awards. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151018063346/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/#2015. 2015-10-18. 2019-07-31. bookcritics.org.
  8. Web site: California Book Award Winners . . May 11, 2016 . December 13, 2023 . December 13, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231213045150/https://www.commonwealthclub.org/about/press-room/press-release/california-book-award-winners . live.
  9. Web site: California Book Awards go to Lucia Berlin, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jill Leovy . Sue . Gilmore . . June 10, 2016 . December 13, 2023 . December 13, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231213045938/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/06/10/california-book-awards-go-to-lucia-berlin-viet-thanh-nguyen-and-jill-leovy/ . live.

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