The Warmth of Other Suns—Using Narrative Nonfiction to tell the American Story*

Isabel Wilkerson, who 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. Inspired by her own parents’ migration, she devoted fifteen years to the research and writing of this book. She interviewed more than 1,200 people, unearthed archival works and gathered the voices of the famous and the unknown to tell the epic story of the relocation of an entire people in The Warmth of Other Suns

She has appeared at universities across the country and in Europe and on national programs such as CBS’ 60 Minutes, PBS’s Charlie Rose, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NBC’s Nightly News, MSNBC, the BBC, C-SPAN, and others. She has taught narrative nonfiction as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, as Cox Professor at Emory University and as Professor of Journalism at Boston University.

*Co-sponsored with Salve Regina University – Mosaic News, Office of Academic Affairs, Office of MissionIntegration and McKillop Library

Date:   April 24, 2013
Time:   7:30 p.m.
Place:  Bazarsky Lecture Hall, O’Hare Academic Center
Salve Regina University
Ochre Point Avenue
Newport, RI

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