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. They disguised themselves as master (Ellen) and slave (William) and made their way from slavery Georgia to the free northen states of the UsA. This involved complicated travel by steamboat, carriage, and trains. There they became celebrities, campaigning for the abolition of slavery. But they had to flee further, to England, to avoid the risk of being captured and returned to Georgia.
The New York Times described the book as: ‘A feat of … storytelling, sympathy, and insight’.
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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.
