November 19, 1958 -
African-American historian, author and law professor
Author of "Vernon Can Read: A Memoir", "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" (for which she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2008 and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 2009) and "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination"