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. Wilkerson
compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in
history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained
access to new data and official records, to write this definitive
and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys
unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story
through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who
in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for
Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old
age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate
seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled
Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil
rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and
Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical
career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a
glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to
purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.
Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and
exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives
in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed
these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved
them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting
microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a
bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an
“unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth
of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its
research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed
herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
關於作者：
Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature
Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of The New York
Times. The award made her the first black woman in the
history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the
first African American to win for individual reporting. She won the
George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration.
She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman Foundation at
Harvard University and has served as Ferris Professor of Journalism
at Princeton University and as the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of
Journalism at Emory University. She is currently Professor of
Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston
University. During the Great Migration, her parents journeyed from
Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was
born and reared. This is her first book.
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