Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed (born 1958) is an American historian, law professor, and author best known for her groundbreaking works on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, including Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1997) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008). She has received major awards such as the National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Humanities Medal, and MacArthur Fellowship for transforming scholarship on American slavery and early U.S. history. Currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, her primary genre is historical nonfiction.