Infamous NYC Child Killer Dies in Custody After 13 Years Behind Bars
New York’s prison system has confirmed that Levi Aron — the man whose name became synonymous with one of the city’s most disturbing crimes — has died while serving a decades-long sentence for killing 8-year-old Leiby…
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About Jeanne M. Leiby
Jeanne Leiby was an American fiction writer and literary magazine editor. Leiby's short stories were published in several U.S. literary journals, including Fiction, Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, and New Orleans Review. In 2000, she won the Poets and Writers Writer Exchange. Her first collection of short stories, Downriver, was published by Carolina Wren Press as the 2006 winner of the Doris Bakwin prize. Leiby also served as fiction editor of Black Warrior Review and as the Editor in Chief of the Florida Review (2004–2007). In Spring 2008, she took over as editor of The Southern Review at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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- journalist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 3, 1964
- Died
- April 19, 2011