He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Elizabeth Mehren, a longtime journalist with the Los Angeles Times and professor of journalism at Boston University. In this book, Fox Butterfield focuses on the life of Willie Bosket, one of the most violent criminals in the history of the New York State Criminal System. All God's children by Fox Butterfield Publication date 1996 Topics Bosket family, African Americans - Biography., African American prisoners., Violence - United States., Racism - United States., United States - Race relations. Butterfield would go onto become a national correspondent for The Times writing about crime and criminal justice - not individual crimes, but broad questions of public policy: prisons, guns, drugs, mental health, what drives crime rates up and down, and particularly how crime tends to run in families. That story became All God’s Children, a winner of the Sidney Hillman Award. Fox Butterfields book All Gods Children provides and in-depth look at the life and background of a notorious juvenile delinquent, Willie Bosket. In 1989, Butterfield was assigned to write an article about a young black man, Willie Bosket, who had murdered two passengers on the subway in Harlem and came to be regarded as the most violent criminal in New York State history. He was a member of The New York Times reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its publication of the Pentagon Papers, and served as a bureau chief for the newspaper in Boston, Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Beijing, where he opened The Times bureau in 1979. Publication date 1996 Topics Bosket family, African Americans - Biography., African American prisoners., Violence - United. Fox Butterfield is the author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea, which won the National Book Award, and All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence.
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