Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey's devastating memoir about her mother—a Black woman killed by her stepfather on Atlanta's Memorial Drive when Trethewey was nineteen—and the lifelong process of reckoning with that loss. Drawing on police recordings and her own memory, Trethewey weaves poetry and prose into a work of extraordinary literary beauty and emotional power. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction.
About the Author
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet and memoirist who served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2012 to 2014. Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, to a Black mother and a white father—a marriage that was illegal in Mississippi at the time—she was shaped by the racial history of her home state and the traumatic murder of her mother by her stepfather when Trethewey was nineteen. She studied at the University of Georgia, Hollins University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Read more →
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