Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is the daughter of a union organizer and a bookkeeper. She is an independent journalist who is best known for her 2003 nonfiction book Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, which chronicles the struggles of two young women as they deal with love, growing families, poverty, and prison time. A contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other publications, she has also been the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe, and several MacDowell Colony residencies. She lives in Manhattan.