Bernard Lefkowitz
Bernard Lefkowitz, a native of New York City, was an author, sociologist, journalist and investigative reporter.
A reporter and assistant editor at the New York Post, Lefkowitz worked for the Peace Corps before becoming an author. Of Lefkowitz's books, which include The Victims, Break-time: Living Without Work in a Nine-to-Five World and Tough Change:Growing Up on Your Own in America, his most famous is probably Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb.
This book dealt with the Glen Ridge Rape of a mentally disabled girl by a group of popular high school students and the town that rallied around them. Lauded by The New York Times as a notable book of the year, as well as an Edgar Award finalist, Our Guys was made into a television movie starring Ally Sheedy and Eric Stoltz.
Lefkowitz taught journalism at City College, Duke University and Columbia University.
He died 21 May 2004 of thymus gland cancer.
