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Occupation | Non-fiction writer
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Ilyon Woo is a Korean American author. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. [1]
Woo attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside Imani Perry. [2] She graduated with a BA in the Humanities from Yale College in 1994. [3] [4] [5] She received her PhD in English from Columbia University in 2004. [6] [4] [5]
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] one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by Time, [9] and won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. [1]
Woo was also a featured author at the 2024 Exeter Literature Festival [10] and 2024 Newburyport Literary Festival. [11]
Ilyon Woo | |
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Alma mater | |
Occupation | Non-fiction writer
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Awards |
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Website |
https://ilyonwoo.com/
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Ilyon Woo is a Korean American author. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. [1]
Woo attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside Imani Perry. [2] She graduated with a BA in the Humanities from Yale College in 1994. [3] [4] [5] She received her PhD in English from Columbia University in 2004. [6] [4] [5]
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] one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by Time, [9] and won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. [1]
Woo was also a featured author at the 2024 Exeter Literature Festival [10] and 2024 Newburyport Literary Festival. [11]