Georgia Gwinnett College, GCPL to Host Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Georgia Gwinnett College, in partnership with Gwinnett County Public Library, welcomes National Book Critics Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson to the GGC Student Center on April 2 at 2 p.m.

She will discuss her award-winning book “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” which chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

“The Warmth of Other Suns” won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was selected a best book of the year by The New York Times, USA Today, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Economist, Boston Globe, Newsday, Salon and many others.

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.

The program will be held at Georgia Gwinnett College’s Student Center LVIS Room located at 1000 University Center Lane, Lawrenceville, GA 30043. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Free guest parking available at Housing 3000 building, off Lonnie Harvel Blvd.