Ilyon Woo is the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times and the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Writing Grant. Her articles have appeared in venues such as The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, and she has received support for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other organisations. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.
'Ellen and William Craft loved each other, but also loved freedom, and knew one was impossible without the other ... we readers gasp in amazement and wonder at the tragedy and triumph.' - Marlon James, winner of The Booker Prize 'Phenomenal' - Honore Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois 'A suspenseful, sensitively rendered account . . . Woo tells the story [with] a cinematic eye.' - W. Caleb McDaniel, The New York Times Book Review 'Superbly researched and masterfully written.' - Library Journal