Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson was the first African-American woman to win the award in 1994. Pulitzer for journalism. She was also awarded the National Humanities Medal by the United States of America in 2015. In 2010, she published The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of the Great American Migration, for which he worked for fifteen years and interviewed 1,200 people, a work that won several national and international awards and which the The New York Times newspaper She chose it as one of the best non-fiction books of all time. Born in Washington, D.C., Wilkerson has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston universities and has been invited to lecture at more than two hundred other schools and universities across the United States, Europe, and Asia.