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Pulitzer Prize Winner and Author Isabel Wilkerson
Friends of the Lehigh Libraries welcomed Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (also available at Lehigh or your local library), gave a talk on February 28th at 4:15pm at Baker Hall in the Zoellner Arts Center.
Isabel Wilkerson, 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. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Diversity, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Weinstock Center for Journalism.
A book signing followed the event.
