Andrea Elliott.
ANDREA ELLIOTT: DASANI COATES BIOGRAPHY
INVISIBLE CHILD: POVERTY, SURVIVAL AND HOPE IN AN AMERICAN CITY (2013)
One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2021.
A heart-breaking account of the childhood of Dasani Coates, a child brought up in abject poverty in Brooklyn, New York City. She has to move with her homeless family of seven sibilings from shelter to shelter.
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Andrea Elliott is the child of a Chilean mother and American father, born in Washington DC. After working in documentary TV programmes in Chile and San Francisco, she studied at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, coming first in her class. Sjhe joined the Miami Herald as a reporter, then the New York Times where she covered the Bronx area. Andrea Elliott has won two Pulitzer Prizes - the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born Imam living in Brooklyn, and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Invisible Child.
