The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679763888
- ISBN: 0679763880
- Physical Description: x, 622 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Vintage books edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2011.
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Random House, ©2010. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-587) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. In the land of the forefathers : Leaving -- The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- Part II. Beginnings : Ida Mae Brandon Gladney -- The stirrings of discontent -- George Swanson Starling -- Robert Joseph Pershing Foster -- A burdensome labor -- The Awakening -- Breaking away -- Part III. Exodus : The appointed time of their coming -- Crossing over -- Part IV. The kinder mistress : Chicago -- New York -- Los Angeles -- The things they left behind -- Transplanted in alien soil -- Divisions -- To bend in strange winds -- The other side of Jordan -- Complications -- The river keeps running -- The prodigals -- Disillusionment -- Revolutions -- The fullness of the migration -- Part V. Aftermath : In the places they left -- Losses -- More North and West than South -- Redemption -- And, perhaps, to bloom -- The winter of their lives -- The emancipation of Ida Mae. |
Awards Note: | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2011. National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2010. |
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Genre: | History. History. |
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Author Notes
The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington, D.C. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Howard University. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. She also won the George Polk Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction, the 2011 Hillman Book Prize, the 2011 Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize, the Independent Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the NAACP Image Award for best literary debut. She has been a journalism professor at Princeton University and Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. (Bowker Author Biography)