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Leah Carroll

Biography

Leah Carroll

Leah Carroll lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of DOWN CITY: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder.

Leah Carroll

Books by Leah Carroll

by Leah Carroll - Memoir, Nonfiction

Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled between depression and mania, was dead by the time she was 18. Why did her mother have to die? Why did the man who killed her receive such a light sentence? What darkness did Leah inherit from her parents? Leah was left to put together her own future. Now, in her memoir, she explores the mystery of her parents' lives, through interviews, photos and police records.