Jeff Hobbs grew up in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, which won the LA Times Book Prize and was voted among the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and Entertainment Magazine. He is the author of Show Them You’re Good: Four Boys and the Quest for College and Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
