Nonfiction staff member Julia Flynn Siler received a 2016-2017 “Public Scholar” award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her third book, Daughters of Joy: America’s Other Slaves and Their Fight for Freedom. Forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf, her book is a narrative history that explores the fight against sex trafficking in San Francisco’s Chinatown and spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2016-08-09
