There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

This is the moving and powerful account of tworemarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago'sHenry Horner Homes, a public housing complexdisfigured by crime and neglect."

Author: Alex Kotlowitz
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 01/05/1992
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.18w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780385265560
ISBN10: 0385265565
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban

About the Author
Alex Kotlowitz is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was awarded the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction. For his documentary film, The Interrupters, he received an Emmy and a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Kotlowitz's work, which has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and on public radio's This American Life, has been honored with two Peabody awards, two duPont-Columbia University awards, and a George Polk Award. He is a writer in residence at Northwestern University. Kotlowitz lives with his wife, Maria Woltjen, and their two children, Mattie and Lucas, just outside of Chicago.