Jennifer Toth

Jennifer Toth
Born	Jennifer Ninel Toth 1967 London
Nationality	British
Occupation	journalist, writer
Notable work	The Mole People
Spouse(s)	Craig Whitlock (m. 1996)

Jennifer Toth is a British journalist and writer.

Born in 1967 in London, she studied history, political science and philosophy in London, New York City and St. Louis. After a 1987-8 internship at Gateway Heritage (now called simply Gateway), the periodical of the Missouri Historical Society, she graduated with a MA in journalism from Columbia University.

From 1990-2 she worked as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D. C. and New York, and afterwards for the Raleigh News & Observer. Toth is married to Craig Whitlock, a journalist and national-security correspondent for The Washington Post.

In 1993, she published her study entitled The Mole People: Life In The Tunnels Beneath New York City, featuring interviews with some dwellers of the "Freedom Tunnel." Her life was threatened by one of the mole people whom she befriended, who thought she witnessed him killing a crack addict. She consequently fled New York City. The book, published by Chicago Review Press, became a world-wide best-seller, translated into Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.

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. "Having aimed high, having strode beneath New York with a can of Mace from her father, and with a heart and head ready to listen, she has brought back a book of stories that no one else has told -- a book that is honest and above all, loving, to people who are nobody's friends. We should all do so well."

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