10 Facts About Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson was born on 1961 and is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Isabel Wilkerson is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Isabel Wilkerson taught at Emory University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, and Boston University.

Isabel Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people for The Warmth of Other Suns, which documents the stories of African Americans who migrated to northern and western cities during the 20th century.

Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington, DC in 1961 to parents who left Virginia during the Great Migration.

Isabel Wilkerson studied journalism at Howard University, becoming editor-in-chief of the college newspaper The Hilltop.

Isabel Wilkerson has been the James M Cox Professor of Journalism at Emory University, Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and the Kreeger-Wolf endowed lecturer at Northwestern University and Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University's College of Communication.

Isabel Wilkerson served as a board member of the National Arts in Journalism Program at Columbia University.

Isabel Wilkerson married Roderick Jeffrey Watts in Fort Washington, Maryland, in 1989.

Isabel Wilkerson married her second husband, Brett Kelly Hamilton, in 2009.