About the author
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and narrative historian. The first Black woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, she writes large histories through closely reported individual lives rather than treating people as examples beneath an argument.
Isabel Wilkerson follows three migrants: Ida Mae Brandon Gladney from Mississippi to Chicago, George Swanson Starling from Florida to New York, and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster from Louisiana to Los Angeles. Their routes, work, marriages, and disappointments remain distinct.
Where to start
Start with The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel Wilkerson tells the Great Migration through three people who left the Jim Crow South for Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
