Isabel Wilkerson

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Isabel Wilkerson during the Texas Book Festival in 2010.

Isabel Wilkerson (* 1961 in Washington, DC ) is a Pulitzer Prize- winning American journalist and author of the multi-award-winning non-fiction book The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration , which deals with the migration movement from African Americans from the rural areas of the southern United States to the industrial cities of the North, Northeast and West between 1910 and 1970.

Life

Isabel Wilkerson studied journalism at Howard University and during that time was the editor of the university magazine The Hilltop . While still in college, she completed several internships with newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post .

In 1994, when she was the Chicago office manager of The New York Times , she became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her articles on the effects of the floods in the Midwest during 1993 and her article on a 10- year old boy who took care of his four siblings. Several of Wilkerson's reportages have been included in the Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories: America's Best Writing, 1979-2003 collection, edited by David Garlock .

Wilkerson received a George S. Polk Award , a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, and Journalist of the Year in 1994 by the National Association of Black Journalists .

She has taught journalism at Emory University , Princeton University , Boston University, and Northwestern University and was on the advisory board for the journalism program at Columbia University . In 2010 she published her book The Warmth of Other Suns | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration , which she had worked on for over 15 years. It deals with the three routes commonly used by African Americans who migrated from the southern states to the northern and western United States between 1915 and 1970. For her book, Wilkerson interviewed more than 1,000 people who were part of this migration movement. Her book made the New York Times bestseller list almost immediately after publication, and has been included by numerous critics on their respective lists of the Most Interesting and Important Books of 2010, including the New York Times critics , The Los Angeles Times , The New Yorker , Salon.com , The Washington Post , The Economist, and The Daily Beast . In March 2011, Wilkerson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for this book in the non-fiction category. The book also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award , the Mark Lynton History Prize , the Sidney Hillman Book Prize, the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction and was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize .

Publications

Books

  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random House, 2010). ISBN 978-0-679-44432-9

Essays, columns and lectures

  • The New American Reader: Recent Periodical Essays , edited by Gilbert H. Muller (McGraw-Hill, 1997)
  • "He Put a Spin on Design", in The Last Word: The New York Times Book of Obituaries and Farewells: a Celebration of Unusual Lives , edited by Marvin Siegel (William Morrow, 1997)
  • "Superstars of Dreamland", in Best American Movie Writing , edited by George Plimpton (St. Martin's Press, 1998)
  • We Americans: Celebrating a Nation, Its People and Its Past , edited by Thomas B. Allen and Charles O. Hyman (National Geographic Society, 1999)
  • "Two Boys, a Debt, a Gun, a Victim: The Face of Violence," in Writing the World: Reading and Writing about Issues of the Day , edited by Charles R. Cooper, Susan Peck MacDonald (Macmillan, 2000). ISBN 0-312-26008-3
  • Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century , edited by Anthony Lewis (Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2001)
  • "First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10," in Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines: The Pursuit of Excellence , edited by Edward Jay Friedlander and John Lee (HarperCollins College Publishers, 1997) and The Princeton Anthology of Writing , edited by John McPhee and Carol Rigolot (Princeton University Press, 2001)
  • Several articles in Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories: America's Best Writing, 1979-2003, edited by David Garlock (Iowa State University Press, 1998; Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition, April 18, 2003)
  • "Angela Whitiker's Climb," in Class Matters , The New York Times (Times Books, 2005)
  • "Interviewing: Accelerated Intimacy," in Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University , edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call (Plume Penguin Books, January 30, 2007)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Emory University Education Program . Emory University. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.journalism.emory.edu
  2. ↑ 30 Moments in Journalism . NABJ. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  3. ^ First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10 (April 4, 1993) (PDF), New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2014. 
  4. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Isabel Wilkerson. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
  5. ^ George Polk Award winners . Long Island University. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  6. ^ National Association of Black Journalists: Past Award winners . NABJ. Archived from the original on June 1, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  7. ^ Isabel Wilkerson, Director, Narrative Nonfiction Program . Boston University. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bu.edu
  8. ^ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration , Random House official website.
  9. ^ Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North . National Public Radio. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  10. ^ Teresa Weaver, The Shelf: Top Ten of 2010 . Atlanta Magazine . Archived from the original on December 6, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.atlantamagazine.com
  11. ^ Laura Miller: The best nonfiction books of 2010 . Salon.com. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  12. ^ A Year's Reading: Reviewers' favorites from 2010 . The New Yorker . Retrieved April 20, 2014.
  13. ^ Books of the Year: Page turners , The Economist . December 2, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2014. 
  14. ^ Best nonfiction of 2010 , The Washington Post. December 10, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2014. 
  15. ^ The Best of the Best Books 2010 . The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wilkerson, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC