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(2011-2012) Isabel Wilkerson

About the Author - Isabel Wilkerson

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 this book. 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.

Interviews with the author:

Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North
NPR: Fresh Air, Aired September 13 2010
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129827444

PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer: The Great Migration
PBS : aired September 28 2010
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/july-dec10/wilkerson_09-23.html

Q&A with Isabel Wilkerson
C-Span: aired September 20 2010
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295559-1&buy

"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration": Isabel Wilkerson Tracks Exodus of Blacks from US South
Democracy Now! : aired September 29 2010
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/29/the_warmth_of_other_suns_the

An Oral History of the Great Migration
NPR: The Takeaway: aired September 15 2010
http://www.thetakeaway.org/2010/sep/15/oral-history-great-migration/

The Story Behind the Great Migration
NPR: Tell Me More: aired September 22 2010
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130047883 part 1
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130212976 part 2

Isabel Wilkerson
KQED Forum: aired September 23 2010
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201009231000

The Warmth of Other Suns – The Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC: aired September 29 2010
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/sep/29/warmth-other-suns/

Author Isabel Wilkerson
Charlie Rose: aired October 13, 2010
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11242