If you don't know what a MacArthur fellowship is, it's a reward given every year by the very wealthy MacArthur Foundation to several Americans who show great promise in contributing to the arts and sciences. Not only does receiving the award mean you're pretty brilliant, it also means you get a cool $500,000 to spend. Not bad. It's also the award that Frank Ginsberg (Steve Carell) from Little Miss Sunshine lost to a rival Proust scholar.
One of the MacArthur Fellows of 2006 was a narrative journalist, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, who wrote Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx, a nonfiction novel following the lives of a poor Puerto Rican family from the Bronx. According to the MacArthur Fellows website, "Adrian LeBlanc is forging a new form of literary reportage and illuminating worlds little known and less understood." While I've never read any of LeBlanc's works, it's good to see her being nominated among developmental biologists, cosmologists, and physicians.
Click here for more information on LeBlanc and her works.
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