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Ilyon Woo is a Korean American author. She won the 2024
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Education

Woo attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside Imani Perry. She graduated with a BA in the Humanities from Yale College in 1994. She received her
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in English from Columbia University in 2004.


Career

In 2010, Woo published ''The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times,'' which takes place in the 19th century and focuses on Eunice Chapman. Her 2023 book ''Master Slave Husband Wife'', a history of the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery, was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by ''The'' ''New York Times'', one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by '' Time,'' and won the 2024
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. Woo was also a featured author at the 2024
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Literature Festival and 2024 Newburyport Literary Festival.


Books

*''Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom''. 37 INK, 2023. *''The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times''. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010.


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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Nationality missing 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century women writers Yale College alumni Columbia University alumni American people of Korean descent Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners {{nonfiction-writer-stub