Alex Kotlowitz has contributed to the New Yorker, Chicago Public Radio's This American Life and the Chicago Matters series, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition. He was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to 1993, and has received a Peabody, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a George Polk Award. Kotlowitz is the author of three books: There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death and America’s Dilemma, and Never a City So Real.