Alex Kotlowitz

ALEX KOTLOWITZ, a former staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, has won the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the George Polk Award, and the Thurgood Marshall Award. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the New Times Magazine, Atlantic, New Yorker, and NPR's This American Life, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Frontline. He is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River, and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here.