Matthew Desmond is a sociologist at Harvard University and a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. Along with the PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, he is the recipient of the National Book Circle Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Matthew Desmond
Articles by Matthew Desmond
Thursday July 6
from Evicted
What the judge was saying, in essence, was: We all agree that you were poor and scared when you did this violent, hurtful thing.