Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
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- Born in
- Washington, D.C.
- Educated at
- Howard University
- Awards
- 🏆 George Polk Award🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 National Humanities Medal🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing🏆 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
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1961
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