Monday, November 24, 2008

First African American Woman Wins National Book Award for Non-Fiction


Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of history at Rutgers-Newark, has won the 2008 National Book Award for Non-fiction for her work "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family."

An interview with the author.

Gordon-Read is the first African American woman to win the nonfiction award.

In addition to teaching at Rutgers, Gordon-Reed is a law professor at New York Law School.

She co-wrote with Vernon Jordan, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir.

Gordon-Reed is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and lives with her family in New York City.


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2 comments:

rikyrah said...

they just need to invite the other side of the family to the family picnics and be done with it.

Craig Hickman said...

Say it again.