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    Alex Kotlowitz, author portrait
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    Alex Kotlowitz

    Alex Kotlowitz is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was awarded the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction. For his documentary film, The Interrupters, he received an Emmy and a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Kotlowitz’s work, which has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and on public radio’s This American Life, has been honored with two Peabody awards, two duPont-Columbia University awards, and a George Polk Award. He is a writer in residence at Northwestern University. Kotlowitz lives with his wife, Maria Woltjen, and their two children, Mattie and Lucas, just outside of Chicago.
    An American Summer
    An American Summer
    Love and Death in Chicago
    Alex Kotlowitz
    9780804170918
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 31, 2020
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Spelling Bee
    The Spelling Bee
    Alex Kotlowitz
    9781101910337
    Ebook
    Sep 09, 2014
    Vintage
    There Are No Children Here
    There Are No Children Here
    The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
    Alex Kotlowitz
    9780385265560
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 05, 1992
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    An American Summer
    An American Summer
    Love and Death in Chicago
    Alex Kotlowitz
    9780804170918
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 31, 2020
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Spelling Bee
    The Spelling Bee
    Alex Kotlowitz
    9781101910337
    $0.99 US
    Ebook
    Sep 09, 2014
    Vintage
    There Are No Children Here
    There Are No Children Here
    The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
    Alex Kotlowitz
    9780385265560
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 05, 1992
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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