From there, she went on to write for the Washington Monthly, and then was a writer for–and editor of–the Washington Post from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 she became a staff member of the New Yorker. Boo writes about poverty, education, the distribution of opportunity, and social and economic policy, and for the past ten years she has divided her time between the United States and India. She has won numerous awards for her work writing about the disadvantaged, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and a MacArthur fellowship. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is Boo’s first book, and it focuses on the disadvantaged in Mumbai, India.