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Ilyon Woo is a Korean American author. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography .[1]
Education
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Woo attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside Imani Perry .[2] Yale College in 1994.[3] [4] [5] PhD in English from Columbia University in 2004.[6] [4] [5]
Career
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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.[7]
Her 2023 book Master Slave Husband Wife , 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 [8] Time ,[9] Pulitzer Prize .[1]
Woo was also a featured author at the 2024 Exeter Literature Festival[10] Newburyport Literary Festival.[11]
Books
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom . 37 INK, 2023.[12] [13]
The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times . Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010.[14]
References
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^ "In print" . yalealumnimagazine.org . Retrieved May 13, 2024 .
^ a b "Ilyon Woo" . albany.edu .
^ a b "Ilyon Woo's nonfiction lands on NYT's 10 best books of 2023" . The Korea Herald .
^ Barragán, Carlos (May 10, 2024). "School of the Arts Alumni Named Finalists in 2024 Pulitzer Prizes" . arts.columbia.edu . Retrieved May 13, 2024 .
^ " . Time . November 14, 2023. Retrieved May 13, 2024 .
^ "The 10 Best Books of 2023" . The New York Times . November 28, 2023.
^ "The 100 Must-Read Books of 2023" . Time . Retrieved May 13, 2024 .
^ "Exeter LitFest welcomes Ilyon Woo, the author of one of the 10 Best Books of 2023" . Portsmouth Herald . Retrieved May 13, 2024 .
^ "2024 Schedule of Events | Newburyport Literary Festival" . Retrieved May 13, 2024 .
^ McDaniel, W. Caleb (January 15, 2023). "Fleeing Slavery in a Top Hat and Cravat" . The New York Times .
^ " . NPR. January 18, 2023.
^ "In 'The Great Divorce': A Mover Against The Shakers" . NPR. August 14, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2024 .
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