Claudia Rowe '88 Named Finalist for National Book Award in Nonfiction
Claudia Rowe '88 is a finalist for a National Book Award in Nonfiction for her book Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care.
In Wards of the State, award-winning journalist Claudia Rowe's storytelling is both vivid and unflinching, offering readers a deep understanding of the foster care-to-prison pipeline.
Writes the National Book Foundation:
"To examine another of Western society’s most vulnerable populations, Claudia Rowe explores the American foster care system through interviews with current and former foster youth—alongside psychologists, advocates, and judges. Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care interrogates the inner workings of a system that contributes to mass incarceration and calls for urgent reform.”
The Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature will be announced live on Wednesday, November 19.
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Rowe recently responded to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire about life at age 59.