Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times. The award made 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 won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration. She has lectured on narrative writing 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, her parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and reared. This is her first book.
A voice from everywhere and nowhere, with credits from Broadway to soaps, Shakespeare to Law & Order, Robin Miles knows audiobooks from both sides of the glass. For her gripping narration, authentic characters, impressive accents, and characters in varied genres, AudioFile named her “a performer who never disappoints.” Her 200+ titles have won multiple Bests of the Year, Earphones, an Audie award and Grammy nomination. She owns production/teaching studio Voxpertise™ and holds a BA and MFA from Yale.
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