The Warmth of Other Suns with Author Isabel Wilkerson

Nov. 4, 2010 - PRLog -- The Warmth of Other Suns with Author Isabel Wilkerson


DATE: Saturday November 6. 2010

TIME: 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST

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In the tradition of works by Taylor Branch and J. Anthony Lukas, THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration (Random House Hardcover), by Isabel Wilkerson, the first African-American Woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, chronicles a watershed event in American history--the decades-long migration of African-Americans from the South to the North and West, from World War I through the 1970s—through the stories of three individuals and their families.

Over a decade in the writing and research, and drawing on archival materials and over 1,200 interviews, THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS traces the lives of Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling, and Robert Foster, from their difficult beginnings in the South, to their critical decisions to leave behind all they know and look for a better life in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.

This extraordinary book is a universal story of longing, loss and hope -- people leaving one isolated land for the dream of a better life in more fertile soil. As with The Greatest Generation, theirs are stories of adventure and courage and, with the generations of people of the Great Migration passing away, this was perhaps the last chance to capture their lives before it was too late. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS will stand as a classic of narrative journalism and of modern American history, on a par with works by Diane McWhorter, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Robert Caro.

About the Author: Isabel Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing 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 Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. Wilkerson also won a George Polk Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration, and she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and has served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and as the James M. Cox Jr. Professor at Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. During the Great Migration, her parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and reared. This is her first book.

Website: http://isabelwilkerson.com/

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