WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) β A reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing dire conditions in group homes for the mentally disabled is year’s recipient of Colby College’s Lovejoy Award.
Colby President David Greene says Katherine Boo, now a staff writer for New Yorker magazine, will receive the award and deliver an address on Oct. 5 at Lorimar Chapel.
Greene, who was a member of the committee that selected Boo for the award, describes the journalist and author as exposing “gut-wrenching tragedies as well as the moments of personal triumph.”
The award is named for Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a Colby alumnus who became the nation’s first martyr to freedom of the press when he was killed in 1837 over anti-slavery editorials in Illinois.
