Lisa Belkin

Lisa Belkin is an American journalist and author. She is best known for Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption (1992), about the public housing battles in Yonkers, New York. In 2015, the book was adapted to an HBO miniseries, starring actor Oscar Isaac and produced by David Simon.

Belkin has worked for The New York Times, HuffPost, and Yahoo News, as its chief national correspondent. She hosted a radio show on XM, an outgrowth of her "Life's Work" column.

Belkin is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.