the warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migration
by isabel wilkerson
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0679444327
- ISBN 13
- 9780679444329
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extremely well-researched account of the great migration of black americans from the jim crow south to the west and north. winner of national books critics circle award.
new york: random house. 6.25 x 9.5". isbn: 978-0-679-44432-9. 620 pages. hardcover. bound in paper-covered boards. book condition: fine. jacket condition: unclipped ($30.00). fine.
Synopsis
Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times. The award made 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. She won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration. 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 of Journalism 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.
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- Bookseller
- leaves (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 921
- Title
- the warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migration
- Author
- isabel wilkerson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0679444327
- ISBN 13
- 9780679444329
- Publisher
- random house
- Place of Publication
- new york
- Date Published
- 2010
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