Jill Leovy
Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. She is best known for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, her award-winning 2015 book about homicide in Los Angeles. Ghettoside was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 85th Annual California Book Awards. It also won the Rindehour Book Prize.
Leovy spent 24 years as a reporter and editor for The Los Angeles Times. She was let go in 2017.
Leovy has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Tribune.
She is a Senior Fellow at USC's Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. She is also a fellow of the Department of Sociology at Harvard.Books
