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This author wrote about the nurse Angela Whitiker in a follow-up to an article about the “Manful Life” of Whitiker’s young son Nicholas. A book by this author opens by analyzing a photo in which only one man, possibly August Landmesser, does not give a Nazi salute in a crowd of shipyard workers. A chapter by this author details an incredibly sleep-deprived man’s overnight drive through the desert to reach California, where he became the subject of the song “Hide Nor Hair” by his patient (*) Ray Charles. Ava DuVernay’s 2023 film Origin (10[1])adapts a book by this author (10[1])subtitled The Origins of Our Discontents, which analyzes eight “pillars” that lead to social stratification. A line by Richard Wright titles a 2010 history by this author that uses Ida Mae Gladney and two others as case studies of the Great Migration. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns. ■END■

ANSWER: Isabel Wilkerson (The articles in the first sentence are “Angela Whitiker’s Climb” and “First Born, Fast Grown.” The photograph in the second sentence is of dozens of German workers performing the Nazi salute.)
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