Isabel Wilkerson
Autor/a de The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Sobre l'autor
Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington, D.C. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Howard University. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a mostra'n més Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. She also won the George Polk Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction, the 2011 Hillman Book Prize, the 2011 Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize, the Independent Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the NAACP Image Award for best literary debut. She has been a journalism professor at Princeton University and Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Isabel Wilkerson
Obres associades
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — Col·laborador — 826 exemplars
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 513 exemplars
We Refuse to Be Silent: Women's Voices on Justice for Black Men (2024) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1961
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Llocs de residència
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Educació
- Howard University
- Professions
- journalist
professor - Organitzacions
- The New York Times
Boston University - Premis i honors
- Pulitzer Prize (Feature writing | 1994)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1998)
National Humanities Medal (2015)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2020)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Female Author (1)
Black Authors (1)
Books to Read (1)
The Zora Canon (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 3
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 9,293
- Popularitat
- #2,595
- Valoració
- 4.4
- Ressenyes
- 345
- ISBN
- 55
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 10