| Gary
Rivlin is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, Drive-By
and Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the
Politics of Race, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction
and the Chicago Sun-Times Nonfiction Book of the Year. He has
reported on city politics for The Chicago Reader and the East
Bay Express.
His work has appeared
in many publications, including The Nation, Upside, In
These Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1993, he
received the San Francisco Bay Area Media Alliance's Print Journalist
of the Year Award for his reporting on urban violence. He lives in
Oakland and is editor of the East Bay Express.
Prizes
and Honors
Carl
Sandburg Award for Non-Fiction, 1992, Fire on the Prairie
Chicago
Sun-Times's
Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 1992, Fire on the Prairie
California
Newspaper Publishers' Association, best writer for a non-daily
newspaper, 1993
San
Francisco Bay Area Media Alliance's "Print Journalism"
prize, 1993
Society
for Professional Journalists, Best Enterprise reporting, 1993
Non-fiction
finalist, Pen-WEST's "Best of West," 1995, Drive-By
San
Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association non-fiction book of
year, finalist, 1995, Drive-By
New
York Times
Notable Book of the Year, 1995, Drive-By
California
Bar Association's "Gold Medallion" award, 1996
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