The Warmth of Other Suns

About The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) follows three Black Americans — Ida Mae Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Pershing Foster — who left the Jim Crow South for Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles between 1937 and 1970, weaving their personal stories through the six-million-person Great Migration that transformed American cities and culture in the twentieth century. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.