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Isabel Wilkerson

Biography

Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times’s list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory and Boston Universities, and has lectured at more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.

Isabel Wilkerson

Books by Isabel Wilkerson

by Isabel Wilkerson - History, Nonfiction, Sociology

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.