Ilyon Woo.
ILYON WOO
MASTER, SLAVE, HUSBAND, WIFE (2023)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2024.
A New York Times Book of the Year.
An account of the remarkable lives of Ellen and William Craft. In 1848 the Crafts managed, against all the odds, to escape a life of slavery in the American south, disguising themselves as master (Ellen) and slave.
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Ilyon Woo is a Korean American journalist and author who has written for thr Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal. She took her BA in Humanities from Yale and a PhD in English at Columbia University.