Matthew L. Schuerman was born and raised in Chicago and has spent most of his life in cities since then. His coverage of urban issues has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, and The Village Voice, as well as on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.” He is currently a senior editor at WNYC public radio in New York, where his projects have won numerous honors, including a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and received a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Newcomers is his first book.
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Matthew Schuerman 