Bookmarked with Sarah McCoy welcomes bestselling author Elizabeth Cobbs for conversation about her new book, The Tubman Command, a historical novel inspired by the life of Underground Railroad hero, Harriet Tubman.
Elizabeth earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University, and now teaches history at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes, two for American history and two for fiction. Elizabeth has been a Fulbright scholar in Ireland and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She has served on the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department and on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History.