Paul Tough

reporter, writer

Paul Tough is the author of *Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America*. He is an editor at *the New York Times Magazine*, where he has written extensively about education, poverty and politics, including cover stories on the Harlem Children's Zone, the post-Katrina school system in New Orleans, and No Child Left Behind and charter schools. He has worked as an editor at *Harper's Magazine* and as the founding editor of Open Letters, an online magazine of first-person correspondence, and as a reporter and producer for the public-radio program *This American Life*, where he reported, most recently, on the parents enrolled in the Harlem Children Zone's Baby College. His writing has appeared in *Slate*, *Esquire*, *GQ*, and *the New Yorker*. He lives with his wife in New York City.