![]() in 1961 to parents who left Virginia during the Great Migration. Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington, D.C. Her book Caste identifies the racial hierarchy in the United States as a caste system. Wilkerson interviewed over a thousand people for The Warmth of Other Suns, which documents the stories of African Americans who migrated to northern and western cities during the 20th century. She also taught at Emory, Princeton, Northwestern, and Boston University. Wilkerson was the editor-in-chief of the Howard University college newspaper, interned at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, and became the Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). ![]() ![]() National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) ![]() Journalist of the Year award from the National Association of Black Journalists The Warmth of Other Suns Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson at the 2010 Texas Book Festival ![]()
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