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Katherine Boo is an American journalist and writer born in Washington, D.C., in 1964. She is educated at Barnard College and speaks English. Her professional career includes writing for The Washington Post. She is married to Sunil Khilnani.
Boo has received several major literary honors, including the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and the National Book Award. Her notable works include *Behind the Beautiful Forevers* and *Un maravilloso porvenir*. She is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize, Macarthur Fellows, and National Book Award collections.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, VIAF, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Un maravilloso porvenir
- Un maravilloso porvenir
- Un maravilloso porvenir
- Un maravilloso porvenir
- Untitled Boo 1/1
via Open Library + Wikidata
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1964
- Nationality
- US, IN
- Role / Field
- Zurnaliste, Writer, Journalists, Journaliste, Journalist, Zurnalistika
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Female
Recorded by 22 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Katherine
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Spouse
- Sunil Khilnani
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Katherine boo 4180016.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1964-08-12
- Commons category
- Katherine Boo
- has written for
- The Washington Post
via Wikidata · CC0