Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is a journalist and the author of Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Scribner, 2003). A New York Times bestseller, the book won many awards including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize, Borders New Voices, and was chosen by over 20 publications as one of the top 10 books of that year. It was also a finalist for the National Critics Book Circle Award for Nonfiction and the international Lettres Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage.
LeBlanc was a 2009 Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, a 2007 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and in 2006, the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
She is a currently a visiting Scholar at the New York University School of Journalism, completing a book about standup comedians.
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