Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
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Edition 69 (2004) Winner
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
アドリアン・ニコール・ルブラン
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- Leominster, Massachusetts
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Manhattan, New York City
Career
- Occupations
- journalist, non-fiction writer, researcher
- Active Years
- 1990-
- Affiliations
- American Academy in Berlin (Holtzbrinck Fellow), NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (visiting scholar), Baruch College Harman Writer-in-Residence Program
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith College | — | — | BA | — | United States |
| University of Oxford | — | modern literature | Master's | — | United Kingdom |
| Yale University | — | — | — | — | United States |
Smith College
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
University of Oxford
modern literature
Degree:
Master's
Country:
United Kingdom
Master's degree in modern literature (Oxford)
Yale University
Country:
United States
Attended/affiliated with Yale University (details not specified)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Margolis Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Lettre Ulysses Award | Random Family | — | Lettre Ulysses | 受賞 |
| 2003 | The New York Times Best Books of the Year | Random Family | — | The New York Times | 選出 |
| — | Borders Original Voices Award (Nonfiction) | Random Family | — | Borders | 受賞 |
| 2006 | MacArthur Fellowship | — | — | MacArthur Foundation | 受賞 |
Margolis Award
2000
Result:
受賞
Lettre Ulysses Award
2003
Work:
Random Family
Organization:
Lettre Ulysses
Result:
受賞
The New York Times Best Books of the Year
2003
Work:
Random Family
Organization:
The New York Times
Result:
選出
Borders Original Voices Award (Nonfiction)
Work:
Random Family
Organization:
Borders
Result:
受賞
MacArthur Fellowship
2006
Organization:
MacArthur Foundation
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
2003 Non-fiction / long-form journalism 448 pagesRandom Family follows two women and their extended family in the Bronx over more than a decade, chronicling poverty, drugs, relationships, and incarceration. The book is based on long-term immersive reporting and extensive interviews, portraying the realities of marginalized urban life.
povertyincarcerationfamily dynamicsdrug-related issuesurban marginalization
Bibliography
- Gang Girl: When Manny's Locked-Up (1994)
- Landing from the Sky (The New Yorker, 2000)
- When the Man of the House Is in the Big House (Cover, 2003)
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
- Sidelines (contribution to Geblendet / Dazzled, 2005)
- 'The Ground We Lived On: A Father's Last Days' (NPR, 2006)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- immersive, fieldwork-based reportagenarrative structure typical of long-form non-fictiondetailed character-driven and ethnographic description
- Recurring Motifs
- marginalized communitiesfamily cycles and intergenerational conflicttension between institutions and individuals (prisons, welfare, etc.)
Legacy
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is recognized for her long-term immersive reporting documenting marginalized urban lives. She is regarded as an influential figure in long-form non-fiction and journalism. Random Family prompted discussion about research methods, ethics, and the possibilities of narrative non-fiction.
Trivia
- Random Family took more than ten years of research and reporting to complete.
- She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 (commonly known as the "Genius Grant").