The National Book Foundation Elects Three New Board Members
Among her honors, she was awarded the 2009 National Book Award in Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize in History for her book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family and she is the first National Book Award Winner to serve on the Foundation’s Board. Professor Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. In 2010, she received the National Humanities Medal and was named a MacArthur Fellow. She is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Vernon Can Read! (a memoir of Vernon Jordan), Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History, and the highly acclaimed biography Andrew Johnson. Annette Gordon-Reed is a transformative historian who has changed our national understanding of the relationship between slaves and slave-owners. As an award-winning writer and educator, Professor Gordon-Reed will provide a strategic, authorial voice on the board.