Josh Levin

Joshua Benjamin Levin (born 1980) is an American journalist, author, and podcaster best known for his book The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (2019), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and examined the life of Linda Taylor, the original "welfare queen." A New Orleans native and Brown University graduate, he serves as national editor at Slate magazine, where he has hosted podcasts like Hang Up and Listen and Slow Burn. Goodreads