false 23607 1 1 Between writing books on urban affairs and society, Alex Kotlowitz has contributed to "The New York Times Magazine", "The New Yorker" and public radio’s "This American Life". Over the past three years, he has produced three collections of personal narratives for Chicago Public Radio: "Stories of Home," "Love Stories" and "Stories of Money." Stories of Home was awarded a Peabody. He has served as a correspondant and writer for a "Frontline" documentary, "Let’s Get Married", as well as correspondant and writer for two pieces for PBS’s "Media Matters." His articles have also appeared in "The Washington Post," "The Chicago Tribune," "Rolling Stone," "The Atlantic" and "The New Republic." He is a writer-in-residence at Northwestern University where he teaches two courses every winter, and a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame as the Welch Chair in American Studies where he teaches one course every fall. He has also been a writer-in-residence at the University of Chicago. Kotlowitz regularly gives public lectures.

Kotlowitz grew up in New York City. His father, Robert, is the author of four novels and a memoir of World War II, "Before Their Time." His mother, Billie, who died in 1994, ran the Thematic Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His brother, Dan, is a professor of Theatrical Lighting Design at Dartmouth. Kotlowitz graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ct..

His first journalism job – after a yearlong stint on an Oregon cattle ranch – was with a small alternative newsweekly in Lansing, Michigan. After a year there, he freelanced for five years, producing for "The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour" and reporting for NPR’s "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." From 1984 to 1993, he was a staff writer at "The Wall Street Journal," writing on urban affairs and social policy.

His journalism honors include the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award. He is the recipient of three honorary degrees and the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice given by New York’s Catholic Interracial Council.

He currently lives with his family just outside Chicago.
]]> male 41918 0385265565 9780385265560 257 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169779920m/41918.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169779920s/41918.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41918.There_Are_No_Children_Here_The_Story_of_Two_Boys_Growing_Up_in_The_Other_America 4.24 1916 NYT. ]]> 23607 4.16 2448 343 1992 129785 038547721X 9780385477215 40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171989413m/129785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171989413s/129785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129785.The_Other_Side_of_the_River_A_Story_of_Two_Towns_a_Death_and_America_s_Dilemma 3.86 298 23607 4.16 2448 343 1998 178389 1400046211 9781400046218 43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172461375m/178389.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172461375s/178389.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178389.Never_a_City_So_Real_A_Walk_in_Chicago 3.89 210 There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the city’s most interesting, if not always celebrated, people.

Chicago is one of America’s most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America’s heart. It’s a place, as one historian has said, of “messy vitalities,” a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself.

Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. It’s probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. He’s drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean up—or at least make sense of—the mess on the inside. Perspective doesn’t come easy if you’re standing in the center. As with There Are No Children Here, Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the author’s guides into this city’s—and in a broader sense, this country’s—heart.]]> 23607 4.16 2448 343 2004 1006609 0867196556 9780867196559 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180170363m/1006609.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180170363s/1006609.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1006609.The_Wonder_Portraits_of_a_Remembered_City_v_2 4.50 8 505182 4.47 38 4 23607 4.16 2448 343 2006