Booklist Editors in Conversation with Authors Katherine Boo and Christian Kiefer, ALA Virtual Conference

CHICAGO — Back by popular demand as part of the annual ALA Virtual Conference (July 18 and 19, 2012), Booklist editors Brad Hooper and Donna Seaman will host 30-minute author lunches, interviewing popular and thought-provoking authors Katherine Boo and Christian Kiefer.

Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known primarily for writing about America’s poor and disadvantaged. A staff writer at The New Yorker, her most recent book is the acclaimed “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.” The book is described as “a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities… . Based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.” Boo’s self-deprecating, insightful approach to her work will make for an unmissable conversation with Hooper on Wednesday, July 18.