The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
In the tradition of works by Nicolas Lemann and J. Anthony Lukas, this magnificent epic by Isabel Wilkerson 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. An NBCC Award finalist.
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this momentous migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
In the tradition of works by Nicolas Lemann and J. Anthony Lukas, this magnificent epic by Isabel Wilkerson 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. An NBCC Award finalist.
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this momentous migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
In the tradition of works by Nicolas Lemann and J. Anthony Lukas, this magnificent epic by Isabel Wilkerson 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. An NBCC Award finalist.
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this momentous migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times Magazine’s list of the best nonfiction books of all time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.
