Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.[1] 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.[2] Leovy argues in Ghettoside that more effort must be given to arresting and incarcerating perpetrators of
inner-citymurders, because "impunity for the murder of black men remained America’s great, though mostly invisible, race problem."[3]
Ghettoside was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award,[7] and it won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 85th Annual
California Book Awards.[8][9] 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)