Brooklyn’s MacArthur Fellows: A History
Lynn Nottage, 2007, Playwright
The Boerum Hill author of Ruined and Intimate Apparel was childhood friends with Lethem, and were not so long ago neighbors. “I grew up in pregentrified Boerum Hill, and the idea then was once you left, you never came back,” she told the Daily News at the time. “There was a love-hate relationship that’s now love-love.”