Sarah Broom and Natasha Trethewey on Memoir
About the Event:
As memoir has become an ever more popular mode of writing, experiments with the form have proliferated. Two recent and outstanding examples are Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive. Broom’s National Book Award-winning debut memoir tells a story of place, class, race, and family history. Trethewey’s Memorial Drive explores her family's legacy, the American South, and the effects of racism. Join Broom and Trethewey for a conversation moderated by CHF's Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director Alison Cuddy on memoirs, the complexity of writing about family trauma, and the limits of memory in piecing together the past.
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Sarah M. Broom
Sarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker; The New York Times Magazine; The Oxford Amer...
Natasha Trethewey
Board of Trustees Professor of English
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of f...
Alison Cuddy
Alison Cuddy is a Chicago-based writer and editor. She is the former host of the award-winning program Eight Forty-Ei...
[Event tile image description: The event image at the top left of the event page is a black and white graphic of Sarah Broom (left) and Natasha Trethewey (right). Broom looks at the camera, smiling slightly. She wears her hair in a wrap, hoop earrings, and a black blazer with the collar turned up. Trethewey smiles at the camera, wearing a black top with her hair down in waves.]