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Wesley Lowery United States of America    PWF 2017

Streetwise — sharp as a diamond — journalist Wesley Lowery, with his team at the Washington Post, received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 for creating the Fatal Force database — a unique database that tracked police shootings throughout America. 

Wesley Lowery seems to have been everywhere and to have spoken with everyone. For Junot Díaz — Lowery’s devastating front-line account in his first book They Can’t Kill Us All  “pulls the sheet off America, exposing the malign disavowals, horrendous racial structures and logics that make the unjust deaths of young, black men not only possible but inevitable.”

“As a primer for the Black Lives Matter movement and as a meditation on the death grip that white supremacy has on the American soul, They Can’t Kill Us All is essential reading.”

Wesley Lowery was born in 1990 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, setting his eyes on journalism at an early age — joining the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. Most recently receiving the Christopher Isherwood prize for autobiographical prose from the Los Angeles Times.

Wesley Lowery resides in Washington, D.C.