Gary Rivlin
Gary Rivlin | |
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Born | June 20, 1958 |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | George W. Hewlett High School Northwestern University |
Notable awards | Gerald Loeb Awards (x2) |
Spouse | Daisy Walker |
Children | 2 |
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Gary Rivlin (born June 20, 1958) is an American journalist and author. He has worked for several different publications, including the
Rivlin grew up in North Woodmere, New York, and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School and Northwestern University.[2] He lives in New York City with his wife, theater director Daisy Walker, and two sons.
In addition to his work in journalism, Rivlin has written nine books. His first book, published in 1992, Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race, was a book about Chicago area politics that won the
His second book, Drive By, was published in 1995 while he worked for the East Bay Express, where he served as a staff writer and then executive editor. The book was inspired by the drive-by shooting of 13-year-old Kevin Reed in Oakland, California in 1990. Rivlin examined, as he put it, "the human side of this country's youth violence epidemic."[2]
Rivlin then wrote two books about technology, The Plot to Get Bill Gates and The Godfather of Silicon Valley. He won two
In 2010, he published Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business, which
In 2015, he published Katrina: After the Flood, about the immediate and long-term effects of
Bibliography
- Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race, Henry Holt & Co, 1992, pp. 442, ISBN 0805026983
- Drive By, Interlink Publishing+group Inc., 1995, pp. 288, ISBN 0704380129
- Rivlin, Gary (1999). The Plot to Get Bill Gates. ISBN 0-8129-3006-1.
- The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, ISBN 081299163X
- Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. -- How the Working Poor Became Big Business, ISBN 0061733202
- Katrina: After the Flood, ISBN 1451692226
References
- ^ The Nation Institute. Retrieved July 6, 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c Sherwin, Elizabeth (November 26, 1995). "'Drive-By' describes life on mean streets of inner-city Oakland". University of California, Davis. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
- ^ "Financial Journalists 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: After the Storm". Gary Rivlin. Retrieved 20 September 2015.