Paula J. Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor (Emerita), Africana Studies, at Smith College. She has published four books: When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women on Race and Sex in America; In Search of Sisterhood, Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement; Burning All Illusions, (editor) an anthology of articles on race published by the Nation magazine from 1867 to 2000; and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. The latter was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and won  the Los Angeles Times Prize in Biography and  the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. IDA was deemed one of the most important books of the year (2008) by the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post. In 2017, Ms. Giddings was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.