The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Book • 2014
Published in 2014, this acclaimed biography chronicles the life of Robert Peace, who grew up in crime-ridden Newark in the 1980s with an incarcerated father and a struggling single mother, yet became a brilliant student who studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics at Yale.
The book explores Peace's dual existence between the ivy-covered campus and the streets of Newark, examining the collision of two insular worlds and the difficulty of navigating between them.
Through meticulous research and empathetic prose, Jeff Hobbs portrays Peace's relationships, his work as a high school teacher and airline baggage handler, and ultimately his murder at age 30, while interrogating broader American issues of race, class, education, justice, and social mobility.
The book explores Peace's dual existence between the ivy-covered campus and the streets of Newark, examining the collision of two insular worlds and the difficulty of navigating between them.
Through meticulous research and empathetic prose, Jeff Hobbs portrays Peace's relationships, his work as a high school teacher and airline baggage handler, and ultimately his murder at age 30, while interrogating broader American issues of race, class, education, justice, and social mobility.
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