New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo has won a National Book Award for her debut nonfiction work Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the National Book Foundation announced on Wednesday night.
CJR profiled Boo in our July/August issue, where she spoke about her development as a writer of slow, careful, descriptive journalism. Read it here, and check out our review of Behind the Beautiful Forevers from the March/April issue here.
Kira Goldenberg was an associate editor at CJR from 2012-2015. Follow her on Twitter at @kiragoldenberg.