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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

by Josh Levin

National Book · 2019 · Winner
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Little, BrownBiography & MemoirNonfictionISBN 9780316513302

Award History

AwardYearStatus
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography2019Winner

About This Book

Josh Levin traces the life of Linda Taylor — the woman Ronald Reagan called the 'welfare queen' — revealing a story far stranger and darker than the racist myth it spawned, involving murder, child kidnapping, and multiple identities. Winner of the NBCC Award for Biography.

About the Author

Josh LevinAmerican

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

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