Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

Born in Washington D.C., she studied journalism at Howard University, becoming editor-in-chief of the college newspaper "The Hilltop". Whilst at university, Wilkerson interned at many presdigious publications, including the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.cite web | url = http://www.journalism.emory.edu/program/wilkerson.cfm | title = Emory University Education Program | publisher = Emory University | accessdate=2008-06-18]

In 1994, whilst Chicago bureau chief of the The New York Times, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism [cite web | url = http://www.nabj.org/30/moments/thirty/index.php | title = 30 Moments in Journalism | publisher = NABJ | accessdate = 2008-06-18] , winning the feature writing award for her coverage of the 1993 midwestern floods and her profile of a 10-year-old boy who was responsible for his four siblings. [cite web | url = http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/19930404children.pdf | title = First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10 (April 4, 1993) | publisher = New York Times | accessdate = 2008-06-18 | format = PDF]

Wilkerson has also won a George S. Polk Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Journalist of the Year award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

She currently holds the position of James M. Cox Professor of Journalism at Emory University.

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