Speaker Biography
Fourth Annual National Book Awards at Concordia College
Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2008 National Book Award winner for Nonfiction
and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner in History 
Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School and a professor of history at Rutgers University. Along with numerous articles and essays, she is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, editor of Race On Trial: Law and Justice in American History, and coauthor with Vernon Jordan of Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir. She is the author of the forthcoming book Andrew Johnson and editor of the forthcoming Jefferson Reader on Race. Gordon-Reed is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She lives with her husband Robert Reed and their children, Susan and Gordon. Gordon-Reed's book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company) was named the 2008 National Book Award winner for Nonfiction and was recently awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History.
National Book Foundation Interview with Gordon-Reed
Video: Annette Gordon-Reed discussed The Hemingses of Monticello at The Library of Congress.
Video: Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about The Hemingses of Monticello, which traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826.
Video (Part 1 of 7): Annette Gordon-Reed talks about her new book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, and answers questions at Monticello's Jefferson Library. Ms. Gordon-Reed explains how and why she began writing about the Hemingses.
Audio: Talk of the Nation, NPR, Sept. 22, 2008
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her book 'The Hemingses of Monticello'
PHOTO CREDIT: Jerry Bauer
National Book Awards at Concordia College
