# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isabel-wilkerson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:11:33.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isabel-wilkerson"
name: "Isabel Wilkerson"
slug: "isabel-wilkerson"
description: "Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Isabel_wilkerson_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.2
  momentum:             14.33733279360329
  historical:           11.839688
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/isabelwilkerson"
    handle:    "isabelwilkerson"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/isabelwilkerson/"
    handle:    "isabelwilkerson"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/IsabelWilkersonWriter"
    handle:    "IsabelWilkersonWriter"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.isabelwilkerson.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "إيزابيل ويلكيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson"
    title: "Isabel Wilkerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Ізабель Вілкерсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ازابیل ولکرسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6077806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump