Korean American writer Ilyon Woo Monday won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Literature.
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom tells the story. The story follows the journey of an enslaved couple who escape from Georgia in 1848.
According to Yonhap, Woo holds a BA in humanities from Yale and a Ph.D in English from Columbia University. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Korea.
Her book is based on the factual story of the Krafts, News Directory reports. The light skinned wife passed herself off as White and took off to the north away from slavery and her husband disguised himself as her slave.
Ellen Kraft was the child of a Black slave mother and White master.
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