The Warmth of Other Suns
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and offical records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Isabel Wilkerson tracks the Great Migration of six million Black Americans out of the Jim Crow South between 1915 and 1970 through three lives: sharecropper Ida Mae Brandon Gladney to Chicago, citrus picker George Swanson Starling to Harlem, and the Atlanta surgeon Robert Pershing to Los Angeles.
Yes. The Warmth of Other Suns won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (Isabel Wilkerson was a finalist; Caste later won broader recognition).
Yes. The Warmth of Other Suns is Isabel Wilkerson's nonfiction history of the Great Migration, the movement of Black Americans from the South to the North between 1915 and 1970. Wilkerson interviewed more than 1,200 people for the book.
The Warmth of Other Suns was written by Isabel Wilkerson, published in 2010 by Vintage.
The Warmth of Other Suns is 635 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Warmth of Other Suns takes most readers 10 to 14 hours to finish.
The Warmth of Other Suns is a standalone novel by Isabel Wilkerson, not part of a series.
The Warmth of Other Suns is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
