Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson to discuss her new book at Quinnipiac University Jan. 26
Hamden, Conn. – Dec. 10, 2010 - Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and former national correspondent for The New York Times, will discuss her new book, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 26, in the Clarice L. Buckman Theater at Quinnipiac University. This event is free and open to the public.
“The Warmth of Other Suns” was selected as one of 2010’s 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, which called it “a masterly and engrossing account of the Great Migration, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South between 1915 and 1970.” The book centers on the journeys of three black migrants who each represent a different decade and a different destination.
Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing when she was Chicago bureau chief for The New York Times. The first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first African American to win for individual reporting, she has also won the George Polk Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She has lectured 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, Wilkerson’s parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and raised. “The Warmth of Other Suns” is her first book.
Wilkerson will sign copies of her book after the lecture. The Office of Academic Affairs, the Chief Diversity Officer and the School of Communications are sponsoring her visit.
For more information, please call 203-582-8652.
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