Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Warmth of Other Suns, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by 30 major publications. A gifted storyteller, Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal, human story of migration and reinvention, and the enduring search for the American dream. Read Full BiographyBooks by Isabel Wilkerson:
The Warmth of Other Suns
"...a brilliant and stirring epic. Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history." –The Wall Street Journal
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Wanting Something Better: The Universality of Immigration
Using Narrative Nonfiction to Tell the American Story
The Journalism of Empathy: A Humanistic Approach to Storytelling
Media About Isabel Wilkerson
- "A Writer's Long Journey to Trace the Great Migration" –The New York Times review of The Warmth of Other Suns
- "The Great Northern Migration" –The Wall Street Journal review of The Warmth of Other Suns
- "The Uprooted: Chronicling the Great Migration" –The New Yorker review of The Warmth of Others Suns
- Isabel Wilkerson on NPR's Fresh Air
- Profile of Isabel Wilkerson –The New York Times
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