Continuing the spring flurry of awards, Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation announced last week that the 2011 Mark Lynton History Prize will be awarded to Isabel Wilkerson for her book “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.” Currently the director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University’s College of Communication, [...]
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Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration, structuring an epic narrative and the challenges of writing nonfiction
April 4, 2011 – 11:10 am
Nieman Fellowship application deadline approaches
November 3, 2009 – 1:22 pm
What do Alma Guillermoprieto, Dexter Filkins, Susan Orlean, Rick Bragg and Anne Hull all have in common? Once upon a time, they all headed to Cambridge, Mass., as Nieman Fellows for a year of study at Harvard University.
College courses, lectures and the opportunity to spend a year pondering big ideas with other committed journalists make [...]
