Jill Leovy

Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.{{Cite web|url=https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/jill-leovy/|title=Jill Leovy | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy|website=communicationleadership.usc.edu}} She is best known for the non-fiction book Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, her 2015 New York Times best-seller about homicide in Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/books/review/jill-leovys-ghettoside.html|title=Jill Leovy's 'Ghettoside'|first=Jennifer|last=Gonnerman|date=January 21, 2015|via=NYTimes.com}} Leovy argues in Ghettoside that more effort must be given to arresting and incarcerating perpetrators of inner-city murders, because "impunity for the murder of black men remained America’s great, though mostly invisible, race problem."{{Cite news|last=Gonnerman|first=Jennifer|date=2015-01-21|title=Jill Leovy's 'Ghettoside'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/books/review/jill-leovys-ghettoside.html|access-date=2021-04-27|issn=0362-4331}}

Career

Leovy spent 24 years as a reporter and editor for The Los Angeles Times.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-jill-leovy-staff.html|title=Jill Leovy|website=Los Angeles Times}} Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The American Scholar.{{Cite web|url=https://muckrack.com/jill-leovy/articles|title=Articles by Jill Leovy | Freelance Journalist | Muck Rack|website=muckrack.com}}

She is a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy{{Cite web|url=https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/news/award-winning-journalist-and-bestselling-author-jill-leovy-joins-cclp-as-senior-fellow/|title=Award Winning Journalist and Bestselling Author Jill Leovy Joins CCLP as Senior Fellow | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy|website=communicationleadership.usc.edu}} and a fellow with the Department of Sociology at Harvard.

Awards

Ghettoside was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award,{{Cite web|title=National Book Critics Circle: awards|url=http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards#2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018063346/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/#2015|archive-date=2015-10-18|access-date=2019-07-31|website=bookcritics.org}} and it won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 85th Annual California Book Awards.{{cite web|url= https://www.commonwealthclub.org/about/press-room/press-release/california-book-award-winners |title= California Book Award Winners |work= Commonwealth Club of California |date= May 11, 2016 |access-date= December 13, 2023 |archive-date= December 13, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231213045150/https://www.commonwealthclub.org/about/press-room/press-release/california-book-award-winners |url-status=live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/06/10/california-book-awards-go-to-lucia-berlin-viet-thanh-nguyen-and-jill-leovy/ |title= California Book Awards go to Lucia Berlin, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jill Leovy |first= Sue |last= Gilmore |work= East Bay Times |date= June 10, 2016 |access-date= December 13, 2023 |archive-date= December 13, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231213045938/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/06/10/california-book-awards-go-to-lucia-berlin-viet-thanh-nguyen-and-jill-leovy/ |url-status=live}} The book was also honored with the Ridenhour Book Prize, the PEN Center USA Prize for research nonfiction and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Books

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (2015)

References

Category:Living people

Category:American women journalists

Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers

Category:Los Angeles Times people

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Category:21st-century American women writers