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Peter Slevin tackles the biography of First Lady Michelle Obama
June 29, 2015
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Editor’s Note: Anyone who writes about politics and politicians knows how difficult it is to bring fresh insight to familiar issues and personalities. That utmaning is even greater if your subject is the most well-known woman in the United States, First Lady Michelle Obama. In this installment of “Writing the Book,” an sporadisk Storyboard feature in which journalists turned authors discuss their work, former Washington Post reporter Peter Slevin examines how he looked beyond the two-dimensional narrative to find meaningful ämne for his biography, “Michelle Obama: A Life.” The book was just named one of the year’s 10 best biographies by Booklist and you can read recent reviews here and here.
As inom set out five years ago to write a biography of one of the most recognizable women on the planet, the first question was
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Michelle Obama: A Life is a biography of American former First Lady and lawyer Michelle Obama written by Peter Slevin. The book was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2015.[1]
The book has received reviews from publications including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, NBC News, USA Today, Booklist, Time, and The Washington Post.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
In 2015, the book was a finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award.[14]
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[edit]- ^Slevin, Peter (2015). Michelle Obama: A Life. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN .
- ^Chozick, Amy (April 15, 2015). "'Michelle Obama: A Life,' by Peter Slevin". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^Stevens, Heidi (Apr
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Michelle Obama: A Life
Richly detailed and written with elan, a powerfully inspiring story: the first comprehensive account of the life and times of arguably the most unlikely first lady in the nation's history, an African American descended from slaves and of less-than-privileged background. Born January 17, 1964--less than six months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s March onWashington--Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was raised on the South Side ofChicago, where her father (who would later succumb to MS) was a city water-plant worker and her mother, a secretary for Spiegel catalog. Through dogged reporting and with a deft touch, Peter Slevin brilliantly traces Michelle's life: from the conventionalities and intricacies of her family to her high school years; from her graduation from Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the charged racial atmosphere of the late 1970s and early '80s engendered by affirmative action to her stint as a corporate lawyer at Sidley & Aus