Natasha Trethewey
- January 4, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Natasha Trethewey |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Apr 26, 1966(1966-04-26) |
| Age | 58 |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Mississippi |
| Horoscope | Aries |
Natasha Trethewey Biography
| Name | Natasha Trethewey |
| Birthday | Apr 26 |
| Birth Year | 1966 |
| Home Town | Mississippi |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Parents | Eric Trethewey, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough |
| Siblings | Joe Grimmette |
| Spouse | Brett V. Gadsden |
Natasha Trethewey is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on April 26, 1966 in Mississippi, United States. American poet, who was named United States Poet-Laureate in 2012. For Native Guard (2006), her poetry collection, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bellocq’s Ophelia (Bellecq) and Thrall.
As United States Poet laureate, she succeeded She succeeded Philip Levine as United States Poet Laureate..
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi.
Trethewey earned her B.A. degree in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University, and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1995. In May 2010 Trethewey delivered the commencement speech at Hollins University and was awarded an honorary doctorate. She had previously received an honorary degree from Delta State University in her native Mississippi.
Eric Trethewey was her father and also a poet. Gwendolyn Ann Turnerbough was her mother who was killed in 1985.
Natasha Trethewey Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Natasha Trethewey is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Natasha Trethewey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
After earning her bachelor’s in English at the University of Georgia, she went on to earn a master’s in English and Creative Writing at Hollins University (in Virginia).
She was the Emory University Creative Writing Program Director.
Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on April 26, 1966, Confederate Memorial Day, to Eric Trethewey and Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough, who were married illegally at the time of her birth, a year before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws with Loving v. Virginia. Her birth certificate noted the race of her mother as “colored”, and the race of her father as “Canadian”.
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Who is Natasha Trethewey Dating?
According to our records, Natasha Trethewey married to Brett V. Gadsden. As of December 1, 2023, Natasha Trethewey’s is not dating anyone.
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On June 7, 2012, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, named her the 19th US Poet Laureate. Billington said, after hearing her poetry at the National Book Festival, that he was “immediately struck by a kind of classic quality with a richness and variety of structures with which she presents her poetry … she intermixes her story with the historical story in a way that takes you deep into the human tragedy of it.” Newspapers noted that unlike most poets laureate, Trethewey is in the middle of her career. She was also the first laureate to take up residence in Washington, D.C., when she did so in January 2013.
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The American Civil War makes frequent appearances in her work. Born on Confederate Memorial Day—exactly 100 years afterwards—Trethewey explains that she could not have “escaped learning about the Civil War and what it represented”, and that it had fascinated her since childhood. For example, her 2006 book Native Guard tells the story of the Louisiana Native Guards, an all- black regiment in the Union Army, composed mainly of former slaves who enlisted, that guarded the Confederate prisoners of war.
What happened to Natasha Trethewey's biological father?
Trethewey’s father, the poet Eric Trethewey, had died in 2014 , and she was having a library built in the front of the house to hold the books he’d accumulated over a career writing and teaching at Hollins University in Virginia.
Is Natasha Trethewey African American?
Trethewey was born in the Deep South to an African American mother and a white father on the centennial of Confederate Memorial Day. Interracial marriage was still against the law in Mississippi when she was born. Her mother, a social worker, and her father, a Canadian poet and teacher, divorced when she was six.
What happened to Natasha Trethewey's mother?
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 abused her and Trethewey, her daughter from a previous marriage, for more than a decade.
What are Natasha Trethewey poems about?
About Trethewey, Academy of American Poets Chancellor Marilyn Nelson said: “Natasha Trethewey’s poems plumb personal and national history to meditate on the conundrum of American racial identities.
What is the theme of the poem history lesson by Natasha Trethewey?
The poem “History Lesson” represents the cultural and political conditions of racism during the 1960s. The poet compares two pictures, highlighting the existence of segregation between white people and people of color.