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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, a 2006 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of Random
Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx, which was
chosen by over twenty publications including The New York Times Book
Review, Entertainment Weekly, People, and The Economist as one of the
"Best Books of 2003." The book, Amazon's "#1 Best of the Decade So Far"
Editor's Pick in nonfiction, also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the
Borders Original Voices Award, the Brendan Gill Prize, the Quality
Paperback Book Club New Visions Prize and the Ron Ridenhour Award, among
others. Considered a contemporary classic of immersion journalism,
Random Family has been described as a "nonfiction Middlemarch of the
underclass" (The Los Angeles Times) and the "literary equivalent of a
100-mile dash" (The Washington Post). Her current project, Give It
Up, concerns the lives of standup comedians and will be published by
Random House. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at NYU.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc gives special thanks: to Dave Isay for his conviction; Mike Garofalo for his steadying presence and the tools; to my family for their support of what I needed to do; and to Arthur Giangrande for sharing the journey with my Dad so spectacularly. My deepest gratitude to Sarah Kramer, who worked hard from the heart to let this be. "The Ground We Lived On" could not exist without her. Her capacity for love is extraordinary.
Sarah Kramer
Sarah Kramer is the senior producer at StoryCorps. Her background in radio and video journalism includes mentoring at WNYC's Youth Radio Series, Radio Rookies, and working as researcher, associate producer and field producer on
documentary films for PBS and HBO including American Experience's Miss
America and HBO's In Memoriam, September 11, 2001. Kramer also made her own film Bunk 22, about a cabin of boys at a camp for troubled children and has worked on videos for the Children's Aid Society and the New
York City Board of Education.
Dave Isay
Dave Isay is the founder
of Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past sixteen years his radio documentary
and feature work has won almost every award in broadcasting including four
Peabody Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and two Livingston Awards for
young journalists. Dave has also received the Prix Italia (Europe's oldest
and most distinguished broadcasting honor), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994)
and a MacArthur Fellowship (2000). He is the author (or co-author)
of four books based on Sound Portraits radio stories: Holding
On (W.W. Norton & Co., 1995); Our
America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago (Scribner, 1997); Flophouse
(Random House, 2000); and Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003). Dave is also creator of the oral-history initiative StoryCorps which
launched in October 2003.
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