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Katherine Boo is an American investigative journalist.
* She has won the MacArthur "genius" award (2002) and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012).
* Her work earned the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Washington Post.
* She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 2003.
* Her book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, was a New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.
* She is married to Sunil Khilnani, a professor of politics and director of the India Institute at King's College London.
* She is a graduate of Barnard College and the College of William and Mary.
* She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
* She is a frequent speaker at universities and other events.
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Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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