Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography · 2024 · Shortlist

Beacon PressNovember 7, 2023biography-memoir history nonfictionISBN 9780807029206

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2024	Shortlist

About This Book

Tiya Miles's biography of Harriet Tubman focuses on the spiritual dimensions of her life and the religious imagination that sustained her extraordinary courage as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award.

About the Author

Tiya MilesAmerican

Tiya Miles is an American historian and author, a professor at Harvard University and a MacArthur Fellow. She specialises in the histories of Native American peoples and African Americans, and the intersection of those histories. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she studied at Harvard and received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Read more →