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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Narrative Journalist
MacArthur
Fellow 2006
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is a nonfiction
writer who writes like a novelist in the
very best tradition of literary
journalism. A prolific author of
magazine and newspaper articles, many on
the effects of poverty on adolescents,
LeBlanc redefined immersion reporting in
her first book,
Random Family: Love,
Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the
Bronx (2003). The result of a
decade spent closely involved in the
lives of her subjects, this ten-year
odyssey stretches the very fabric of
long-form nonfiction and demonstrates
LeBlanc’s mastery as observer of human
character. Her haunting study enables
readers to inhabit the daily chaos and
brutal violence of a community in an
impoverished Bronx neighborhood,
revealing its inner workings and
creating an intimate chronicle of urban
poverty. It is an original, surprising,
and unsettling work of nonfiction that
helps readers see and value the humanity
in even the poorest lives and to find
meaning, as do LeBlanc’s subjects, in
the most ordinary moments. Her current
project, an investigation of the world
of Rick
Shapiro and stand-up comedians, also explores
lives at the margin and delves into the
distinctive realities of the comic
underworld and the characters that
inhabit it. With an eye for detail and
a passion for depth, Adrian LeBlanc is
forging a new form of literary reportage
and illuminating worlds little known and
less understood.
Adrian Nicole
LeBlanc received a B.A. (1986) in
sociology from Smith College, an M.A.
(1988) in philosophy and modern
literature from the University of
Oxford, and an M.A. (1993) in law
studies from Yale University Law
School. Prior to devoting herself to
the project that became
Random
Family, she was the fiction editor
of Seventeen magazine
(1988-1992). She has been a member of
the adjunct faculty of Columbia
University’s School of Journalism (2005)
and is currently a visiting scholar at
New York University’s School of
Journalism. Her work has appeared in
numerous publications, including the
New York Times Magazine, the
New Yorker, Esquire, and
the Village Voice, among
others.
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Hollywood
Elementary
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A Journalist Grapples With
Grief -- Part I
MacArthur Award winner
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on the
emotions of capturing her
father's dying days
By
Rebecca L. Fox –
November 14, 2006
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