Word: suskind
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Last night, Pulitzer Prize winning-writer Ron Suskind spoke with Cedric Jennings, the subject of his new book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League...
About 300 people came to see Suskind and Jennings at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Education Forum...
...Suskind's novel and Pulitzer-Prize- winning Wall Street Journal articles document Jennings' journey from one of the nation's worst inner-city public schools, Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in Washington D.C., to Brown University...
...Both Suskind and Jennings agree that the unwavering motivation of Barbara Jennings, Jennings' mother, was a prerequisite for his success...
...photographer Lucian Perkins won the explanatory journalism prize for their book-length profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with poverty. The national reporting award went to Tony Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal for stories about working conditions in low-wage America. The Journal's Ron Suskind won for feature writing for stories about inner-city honor students in Washington. The Boston Globe's David Shribman won the beat reporting prize for his work on developments in Washington and around the nation. Other winners: The Washington Post's Carol Guzy won the spot news photography prize...