Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author. She is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, an Oprah’s Book Club selection. The Warmth of Other Suns won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction. Outside of her books, Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994. This win made her the first black woman journalist to win a Pulitzer and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. Get notified when Isabel Wilkerson releases a new book at BookNotification.com.