Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958 in Conroe, Texas) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and law professor. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and is now the Wallace Stevens professor of law at New York Law School and a Board of Governors professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark.
Gordon-Reed was born November 19, 1958, in Conroe, Texas, to Betty Jean Gordon and Alfred Gordon. She bec...
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Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958 in Conroe, Texas) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and law professor. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and is now the Wallace Stevens professor of law at New York Law School and a Board of Governors professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark.
Gordon-Reed was born November 19, 1958, in Conroe, Texas, to Betty Jean Gordon and Alfred Gordon. She became interested in Thomas Jefferson in elementary school after reading a children’s biography of him, narrated by a fictional slave boy. At fourteen, she joined the Book-of-the-Month Club (concealing her status as a minor) to receive Fawn Brodie’s biography, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Portrait. She continued her study of Jefferson’s life at Dartmouth College, where she majored in History, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981. She attended Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and graduated in 1984. ...
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