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Jul 28, 2020 · Thirty-five years ago, Natasha Trethewey's stepfather shot and killed her mother outside of her home in a suburb of Atlanta.
- Terry Gross
Jun 1, 2021 · Confronting her life through the lens of her mother’s death, Natasha, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and two-time US Poet Laureate, examines the relationship they had with each other, the strength of women, and what it was like growing up biracial in the South, in the shadows of memorials commemorating subjugation and violence.
Apr 5, 2021 · McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” won for fiction and Trethewey’s memoir “Memorial Drive” was a co-winner for nonfiction, along with Vincent Brown’s “Tacky’s Revolt.” Delaney, known for such influential novels as “Babel-17” and “Dahlgren,” received a lifetime achievement prize.
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Jul 26, 2020 · Natasha Trethewey was 19 when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother on Memorial Drive in Atlanta. After cleaning out the apartment, Trethewey left the city and vowed never to look...
Jul 22, 2020 · 35 years after her mother’s murder, a poet of Black struggle writes a monument. By Hillary Kelly. July 22, 2020 8:25 AM PT. Natasha Trethewey tells me a ghost story.
- Hillary Kelly
Aug 12, 2020 · In 1985, when the poet Natasha Trethewey was nineteen, her mother, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough, was murdered on Memorial Drive, in Atlanta. The murderer was Turnbough’s ex-husband, who had...
Natasha Trethewey. In the final paragraph of Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey describes driving with her mother toward Gulfport, Mississippi, where their relationship began in 1966 when Natasha was born.
