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City Club of Cleveland - Isabel Wilkerson, Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award Winner
City Club of Cleveland
 
 
 
Isabel Wilkerson, who spent most of her career as a national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times, is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in the history of American journalism and was the first black American to win for individual reporting. Inspired by her own parents' migration, she devoted fifteen years to the research and writing of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. She interviewed more than 1,200 people, unearthed archival works and gathered the voices of the famous and the unknown to tell the epic story of the relocation of an entire people in The Warmth of Other Suns.
September 16, 2011