Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc.
She worked for Seventeen as an editor after earning her master's degree in modern literature at Oxford.
LeBlanc's first book, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, took more than 10 years to research and write.
Her research methods earned her a spot among several other journalists and nonfiction writers in Robert Boynton's book, New New Journalism.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc was a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Spring 2009.