Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50 as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”
“Astonishing... Desmond has set a new standard for reporting on
poverty.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review
“After reading Evicted, you’ll realize you cannot have a serious
conversation about poverty without talking about housing. . . . The
book is that good, and it’s that unignorable.”—Jennifer Senior, New
York Times
“This book gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very
poor in this country than anything else I have read. . . . It is
beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable.”—Bill
Gates
“Inside my copy of his book, Mr. Desmond scribbled a note: ‘home =
life.’ Too many in Washington don’t understand that. We need a
government that will partner with communities, from Appalachia to
the suburbs to downtown Cleveland, to make hard work pay off for
all these overlooked Americans.”—Senator Sherrod Brown, Wall Street
Journal
“My God, what [Evicted] lays bare about American poverty. It is
devastating and infuriating and a necessary read.”—Roxane Gay,
author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women
“Written with the vividness of a novel, [Evicted] offers a dark
mirror of middle-class America’s obsession with real estate, laying
bare the workings of the low end of the market, where evictions
have become just another part of an often lucrative business
model.”—Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times
“In spare and penetrating prose . . . Desmond has made it
impossible to consider poverty without grappling with the role of
housing. This pick [as best book of 2016] was not close.”—Carlos
Lozada, Washington Post
“An essential piece of reportage about poverty and profit in urban
America.”—Geoff Dyer, The Guardian
“It doesn't happen every week (or every month, or even year), but
every once in a while a book comes along that changes the national
conversation. . . . Evicted looks to be one of those books.”—Pamela
Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review
“Should be required reading in an election year, or any
other.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Powerful, monstrously effective . . . The power of this book
abides in the indelible impression left by its stories.”—Jill
Leovy, The American Scholar
“Gripping and important . . . [Desmond's] portraits are vivid and
unsettling.”—Jason DeParle, New York Review of Books
“An exquisitely crafted, meticulously researched exploration of
life on the margins, providing a voice to people who have been
shamefully ignored—or, worse, demonized—by opinion makers over the
course of decades.”—The Boston Globe
“[An] impressive work of scholarship . . . As Mr. Desmond points
out, eviction has been neglected by urban sociologists, so his
account fills a gap. His methodology is scrupulous.”—Wall Street
Journal
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
