Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is a journalist who has written for many publications including The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. She is best known for her 2003 nonfiction book Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Scribner), which chronicles the lives of two young women and their families in contexts shaped by social inequality. The book has received many awards including the 2004 Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize, and it was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Ulysses Lettres Award for the Art of Reportage among others. More recently, it has been counted among the New York Times Top 100 Books of the 21st Century, and the Los Angeles Times’ 30 Best Books of the Last 30 Years.
Leblanc has also received a MacArthur grant and the Holtzbrinck Prize at the American Academy in Berlin; she has been a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, at the Radcliffe (Bunting) Institute, Yaddo, MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, Hedgebrook and other residencies—support without which such long-term work would not be possible. She is currently completing another nonfiction book about trauma and stand-up, which is under contract with Random House.