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Isabel Wilkerson family is originally from Virginia. Isabel Wilkerson parents shifted to Virginia during the Great Migration.

Wilkerson has given nearly half of her life to the journalism profession. She graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School and later enrolled in the Howard University School of Journalism.

During her college years, she interned at publications like The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Also, she was the editor-in-chief of her college newspaper. Wilkerson became more interested in journalism and began her career as The New York Times' Chicago bureau chief.

Since 1994, Wilkerson has been serving as a journalist and an author. Her prominence rose after she won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. People noticed her as she was the first woman of African-American heritage to win the prize.

Isabel Wilkerson parents were from the rural South of the United States

Her parents migrated to Virginia during the Great Migration between 1910 and 1970.

During the Great Migration, six million African Americans moved from the rural south of the United States to the urban northeast, midwest, and west of the states.

Wilkerson's parents were two of those millions of people. Wilkerson, the New York Times bestselling author, was inspired by her mom and dad. 

Even though they are no longer in this world, Wilkerson remembers them every time she achieves something good in her profession.

Father Mr. Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson's father, Mr. Wilkerson, also left Georgia and moved to Washington. However, he met his wife years after settling in the new city.

Mr. Wilkerson was one of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African Americans who served in the Second World War. After serving in the second war, he started working as a civil engineer, following his educational qualification.

He met his wife for the first time in graduate school and started their marital relationship afterward.

Wilkerson inherited her father's heroic and hardworking spirit. All his life, he was concerned about his wife and daughter.

Mother Rubye Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson's mother, Rubye Wilkerson, was originally from a small town in Georgia. Mrs. Wilkerson was a junior high school teacher and a businesswoman.

At a young age, Wilkerson moved from the south to the north and enrolled at North Carolina Central College. After finishing her college studies, she worked as a wartime office worker for the Federal Government for a time.

Mrs. Wilkerson had a master's degree from Howard University. With this qualification, she started teaching at a junior high school.

Wilkerson had a quick mind, a fearless attitude, and big dreams. She even bought her own house in Washington with her savings. Mrs. Wilkerson left the world in 2016.

Isabel Wilkerson Husband And Personal Life

Isabel Wilkerson first husband name is Roderick Jeffrey Watts. Isabel and Roderick were married in Fort Washington, Maryland in 1989.

Dr. Roderick Jeffrey Watts is an American citizen. His father was the main health planner for the New York State Department of Health, whereas his mother was the office manager.

Watts works at the New York Graduate Center as a professor of psychology. Watt holds a Ph.D. in clinical-community psychology. Earlier, he worked at DePaul University as a faculty member.

He has training in personality psychology as well. Watt is interested in researching social identity, social justice, and men's development.

He has been involved in social justice and men's development programs, engaging with numerous organizations. Most of all, Watt is concerned about the Afri-can American youth and their uplifting. 

Wilkerson marriage life with Roderick didnt work out well. Though the author hasn't take about the reason behind her decision, they are no longer together.

Isabel Wilkerson Husband Brett Kelly Hamilton Married Near 2015

Isabel Wilkerson re-married husband Brett Kelly Hamilton in 2015. Brett Kelly Hamilton was born in 1969 in Atlanta to his parents John and Nancy Hamilton.

He has a sister named Lisa Hamilton, who is now an artist in Brooklyn.

Hamilton completed his high school studies at Grady High School, in Atlanta and Centre College in Danville. He majored in mathematics and physics. 

Hamilton later enrolled at the University of Kentucky. By profession, he was an actuary and financial analyst in the healthcare industry, based in Texas, Kentucky, and Atlanta.

Wilkerson husband Hamilton passed away in 2015. He was suffering from a brain tumor.

Wilkerson and her love Brett Hamilton couldn't stay together for long. However, they cherished each other throughout their time together.

Hamilton had a loving nature, inner strength, and steadfast optimism. Even Mrs. Wilkerson was in relief getting him as her son-in-law. On Mother's Day 2017, Wilkerson remebered her parents and her late husabnd.

About him, she wrote, "His abiding love and compassion offered joy and redemption to me and to my mother and eased our burdens as her health ebbed and flowed." "It gave her comfort to know that her daughter, and she by extension, was so loved and cherished."

Isabel Wilkerson Children

Isabel Wilkerson doesn't have biological children, as Hamilton passed away within a few years of the marriage. 

The groom took his last breath after suffering from a brain tumor for a while.

Though they didn't give birth to any children, Wilkerson has stepchildren.

She is a stepmother to Hamilton's sons, Ansley and Rafe. Ansley Hamilton is 20 years old, while Rafe Hamilton has turned 17. Hamilton had two sons from his past marriage relationship.

Isabel Wilkerson Book 'Caste'

Isabel's book has brought her numerous prizes and awards. Wilkerson is an award-winning author.

Apart from being a prominent journalist, Wilkerson is well-known as the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. It included a historical study of the Great Migration.

Wilkerson published the study material in 2010, and that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Moreover, in 2020, she released another nonfiction book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The same year, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the AudioFile Earphones Award, the Goodreads Choice Award, and numerous other nominations.

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