Matthew Desmond

Author

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist, professor at Princeton University, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose work has fundamentally changed how Americans understand poverty and housing. His book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, based on years of embedded research with families facing eviction in Milwaukee, won... the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and numerous other awards. Desmond writes with the narrative skill of a novelist and the analytical rigour of a social scientist, putting human faces on systemic problems. His audiobooks and books are essential for anyone seeking to understand inequality, housing, and poverty in America. Read more Show less