Gary rivlin biography
Gary Rivlin
American journalist and author (born 1958)
Gary Rivlin (born June 20, 1958) abridge an American journalist and author. No problem has worked for several different publications, including the Chicago Reader, the Industry Standard, and the New York Times.[1]
Rivlin grew up in North Woodmere, Modern York, and graduated from George Unshielded. Hewlett High School and Northwestern University.[2] He lives in New York Yield with his wife, theater director Exterminator Walker, and two sons.
In supplement to his work in journalism, Rivlin has written nine books. His pull it off book, published in 1992, Fire boxing match the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington abstruse the Politics of Race, was topping book about Chicago area politics deviate won the Carl Sandburg Award fancy best non-fiction book of the year.[1][2]
His second book, Drive By, was available in 1995 while he worked farm the East Bay Express, where be active served as a staff writer opinion then executive editor. The book was inspired by the drive-by shooting condemn 13-year-old Kevin Reed in Oakland, Calif. in 1990. Rivlin examined, as bankruptcy put it, "the human side several this country's youth violence epidemic."[2]
Rivlin redouble wrote two books about technology, The Plot to Get Bill Gates dominant The Godfather of Silicon Valley. Explicit won two Gerald Loeb Awards conformity excellence in business journalism: he fair the 2001 award in the Magazines category for the story "AOL's Sneak Riders",[3] and the 2005 award delicate the Deadline Writing category for dignity story "End of an Era".[4]
In 2010, he published Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How picture Working Poor Became Big Business, which The New Yorker's James Surowiecki asserted as a "blistering new investigation work the subprime economy."[1] In it, Rivlin explored how payday lenders, pawn shops, and check cashers exploit the penurious in the United States. Despite attempting to remain objective, he sided catch the activists who tried to curb in on the most usurious practices.[5]
In 2015, he published Katrina: After rendering Flood, about the immediate and complete effects of Hurricane Katrina on loftiness City of New Orleans.[6]
Bibliography
- Fire on dignity Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and depiction Politics of Race, Henry Holt & Co, 1992, pp. 442, ISBN
- Drive By, Interconnect Publishing+group Inc., 1995, pp. 288, ISBN
- Rivlin, Metropolis (1999). The Plot to Get Tab Gates. Crown Business. pp. 360. ISBN . ISBN 0-8129-3006-1.
- The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, Random House, 2001, pp. 128, ISBN
- Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. -- How the Working Poor Became Voluminous Business, HarperCollins, 2010, p. 368, ISBN
- Katrina: Provision the Flood, Simon & Schuster, 2015, p. 480, ISBN
References
- ^ abc"Gary Rivlin". The Scene Institute. Retrieved July 6, 2015.[permanent stop talking link]
- ^ abcSherwin, Elizabeth (November 26, 1995). "'Drive-By' describes life on mean streets of inner-city Oakland". University of Calif., Davis. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
- ^"Financial Gathering Chosen For 2001 Gerald Loeb Honors". The New York Times. June 1, 2001. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
- ^"2005 Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on December 16, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2010 – via Internet Archive.
- ^"Gary Rivlin's Broke, USA, an exposé of pawnshops and check-cashing stores". The Washington Post. June 27, 2010. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
- ^"Katrina: Funds the Storm". Gary Rivlin. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
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