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Ilyon Woo
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Ilyon Woo is a Korean American author. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Education

Woo attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside Imani Perry. She graduated with a BA in the Humanities from Yale College in 1994. She received her PhD in English from Columbia University in 2004.

Career

In 2010, Woo published The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times, which takes place in the 19th century and focuses on Eunice Chapman.

Her 2023 book Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, a history of the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery, was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times, one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by Time, and won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Woo was also a featured author at the 2024 Exeter Literature Festival and 2024 Newburyport Literary Festival.

Books

  • The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010.
  • Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom. 37 INK, 2023.

References

  1. ^ "2024 Pulitzer Prizes".
  2. Egan, Elisabeth (February 2, 2023). "They Crossed Paths in Second Grade. Now They're Best Sellers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  3. "In print". yalealumnimagazine.org. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  4. ^ "Ilyon Woo". albany.edu.
  5. ^ "Ilyon Woo's nonfiction lands on NYT's 10 best books of 2023". The Korea Herald.
  6. Barragán, Carlos (May 10, 2024). "School of the Arts Alumni Named Finalists in 2024 Pulitzer Prizes". arts.columbia.edu. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  7. "'Master Slave Husband Wife' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2023". Time. November 14, 2023. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  8. "The 10 Best Books of 2023". The New York Times. November 28, 2023.
  9. "The 100 Must-Read Books of 2023". Time. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  10. "Exeter LitFest welcomes Ilyon Woo, the author of one of the 10 Best Books of 2023". Portsmouth Herald. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  11. "2024 Schedule of Events | Newburyport Literary Festival". Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  12. "In 'The Great Divorce': A Mover Against The Shakers". NPR. August 14, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  13. McDaniel, W. Caleb (January 15, 2023). "Fleeing Slavery in a Top Hat and Cravat". The New York Times.
  14. "'Master Slave Husband Wife' details a couple's journey from slavery to freedom". NPR. January 18, 2023.

External links

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2001–2025)


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