National Book Award winner Tiya Miles has delivered an innovative vision of Harriet Tubman’s life in her groundbreaking biography “Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People.” ...

Months before embarking on a journey to eventually become the most renowned “conductor” of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman sought divine intervention. It was the winter of 1848-49, historian ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. National Book Award-winning author Tiya Miles explores the history and mythology of a remarkable woman in "Night Flyer: ...

Tiya Miles’s Night Flyer is a landmark biography of one of 19th-century America’s most important figures. Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869. Every American seems to know the name and even story of ...