Name Bernard Lefkowitz | ||
Born August 24, 1937 United States Died May 21, 2004, New York City, New York, United States Movies Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge Books Our Guys, The Victims, Tough change Nominations Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime People also search for Ken Gross, Kenneth G. Gross, Guy Ferland, Paul Brown | ||
Bernard Lefkowitz, a native of New York City, was an author, sociologist, journalist, and investigative reporter.
A reporter and assistant editor at the New York Post, Lefkowitz worked for the Peace Corps before becoming an author. Of Lefkowitz's books, which include The Victims, Break-time: Living Without Work in a Nine-to-Five World, and Tough Change:Growing Up on Your Own in America, his most famous is probably Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb.
This book dealt with the Glen Ridge Rape of a mentally disabled girl by a group of popular high school students, and the town (Glen Ridge, New Jersey) that rallied around them. Lauded by the New York Times as a notable book of the year, as well as an Edgar Award finalist, Our Guys was made into a television movie starring Ally Sheedy and Eric Stoltz.
Lefkowitz taught journalism at City College, Duke University, and Columbia University.
He died May 21, 2004 of cancer.