Jeff Hobbs
Jeff Hobbs is the author of The Tourists, a national bestseller, and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, a New York Times bestseller, an Amazon’s #4 Best Book of the Year, and a Notable Book of the Year selection by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR. In The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Hobbs documents the life of his roommate and best friend from college. Robert Peace was born in an impoverished neighborhood outside Newark nicknamed “Illtown.” Through a rare and delicate interplay of intelligence, ambition, luck, and sacrifice, Peace earned admission to Yale, where he majored in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and graduated with distinction. He also sold marijuana to his fellow classmates. Almost exactly nine years after graduation, Peace was murdered violently, in a drug related homicide, in a basement one mile from the house he’d grown up in. This is a story about America, its cities and their challenges, education and access and entitlement, identity and the forces that shape it, and the continuing national psychosis of race – unveiled in all their complicated gray areas through this intimate portrait of a singular individual.
For more about Jeff and his works, go to http://www.lifeofrobertpeace.com/
