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Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize Winner @ Commonwealth Club 12/7
December 2, 2011



Community Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

Event Date:12/07/2011Event Fee:No Fee
Event Time:7:00pm-9:00pm
Location:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, Ste. 200
San Francisco, CA

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The Warmth of Other Suns: A Community Conversation with Author Isabel Wilkerson.
Join us for a Community Conversation featuring Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns. Wilkerson spent most of her career as a national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times, is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in the history of American journalism, and was the first black American to win for individual reporting.
In The Warmth of Other Suns, Wilkerson tells one of the greatest under-reported stories in American history about a time when some six million black Americans fled the American South for an uncertain existence in the urban North and West. Their leaving became known as the Great Migration. Inspired by her own parents' migration, The Warmth of Other Suns is the story of three who made the journey, of the forces that compelled them to leave and of the many others-famous and not so famous-who went as far as they could to realize the American Dream.



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