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MVP Fridays(Lecture and Book Signing) — Ilyon Woo: “How can history help us pursue justice?”

Friday, September 27, 2024 4:00–6:00 PM
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    Ilyon Woo is the New York Times best-selling author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. She has received support for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, among other institutions. Ilyon is also the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times, her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and The New York Times. Ilyon has traveled the country to speak at bookstores, museums, schools, and book festivals, and she has been featured on such programs as NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and CBS Sunday Morning. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University.
    Co-sponsors: Creative Writing Program, Department of American Studies, Department of History, Program of Liberal Studies

    Join the Center for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons of home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Reception and book signing to follow.

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    https://events.nd.edu/events/2024/09/27/mvp-fridays-ilyon-woo-how-can-history-help-us-pursue-justice/

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