[2] Her father was a national security correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and later a senior associate at the Pew Research Center, while her mother was a lawyer and special advocate for the state of Maryland.
[citation needed] Jim Dwyer, the author of Subway Lives, presented an influential review of The Mole People for the Washington Post on 25 October 1993.
"The wilder stories are overshadowed by the far simpler and far more touching portraits Toth presents of injured people struggling for dignity and tenderness," Dwyer wrote.
"[8] Five years later, Toth released another narrative about a young man, "What Happened to Johnnie Jordan: The Story of a Child Turning Violent," that once again pierced the secrecy surrounding foster care and juvenile services, this time in Toledo, Ohio.
The child in question is Johnnie Jordan, a fifteen-year-old Ohioan who brutally murdered his foster mother in 1996, hacking her to death with a hatchet and then setting her on fire.