Ilyon Woo is a Korean American author.

[1] Woo attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside Imani Perry.

[2] She graduated with a BA in the Humanities from Yale College in 1994.

[6][4][5] In 2010, Woo published The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times, which takes place in the 19th century and focuses on Eunice Chapman.

[7] Her 2023 book Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, a history of the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery, was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times,[8] one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by Time,[9] and won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.