Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Katherine Boo is an American journalist and author known for her long-form narrative journalism about poverty in America and India. She studied political science at Barnard College and worked for many years at The Washington Post, where she won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 for her reporting on the neglect and abuse of the mentally retarded in group homes. Her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012) followed the lives of residents of Annawadi, a Mumbai slum beside the international airport. Read more →