I’ve long been a fan of Katherine Boo’s writing. In one of my favorite New Yorker stories, about efforts to get the poor to marry, her opening line is a treasure: “One July morning last year in ...
Katherine Boo’s new book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” documents the precarious existence of the three thousand people who live in Mumbai’s Annawadi ...
In 2007, New Yorker magazine writer Katherine Boo started three years of visits to the Annawadi slum in Mumbai, India, interviewing residents in the small shantytown behind the city’s gleaming airport ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo spent more than three years in Mumbai's Annawadi slum. In her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers,... Finding 'Life, Death And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum ...
Annawadi, the vast slum concealed behind Mumbai Intl. Airport, was author Katherine Boo’s home for three years. It’s doubtful that she’d recognize the place in its onstage incarnation. The crowded, ...
The narrative nonfiction writer walks a fine line. You must remain fascinated with your subjects, hew to the truth, resist prettying things up and avoid editorializing. If you are Katherine Boo, the ...
Residents of the Annawadi slum, Mumbai, the setting for Katherine Boo's non-fiction book 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' Credit: Photo: AFP In 1971, at the height of the Indo-Pakistan war, my parents ...
The hit movie Slumdog Millionaire made viewers around the world aware of the poverty and slums in Mumbai, India. In her outstanding first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, New Yorker staff writer ...
This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 8, 2012. On Wednesday, Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ...
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