Gretchen Gerzina

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (born 1950) is an American author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies. Her academic posts have included being the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of Biography at Dartmouth College, working as a professor at Vassar College, being a professor and a director of Africana Studies at Barnard College, and as at April 2019 being the Dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College.[1] Gerzina was the host of WAMC's nationally-syndicated radio program The Book Show for fourteen years, where she interviewed authors.[2]

In the UK, she presented a ten-part documentary for BBC Radio 4 called Britain's Black Past,[3] which she subsequently adapted into a book.[4]

Selected publications
  • 1989: Carrington: A Life
  • 1995: Black England: Life Before Emancipation[5][6][7]
  • 2004: Frances Hodgson Burnett: The unexpected life of the author of The Secret Garden[8][9]
  • 2008: Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary 18th-Century Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend

References
  1. "About Us | Dean Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina". Commonwealth Honors College. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019.
  2. "Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina". gretchengerzina.com. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  3. "Britain's Black Britain". BBC Radio 4. October 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  4. Gerzina, Gretchen (March 11, 2020). Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1789621600.
  5. Rogers, P (1996). "Black England - Life before emancipation". The Times Literary Supplement: 8.
  6. Barthelemy, A. G. (1997). "Black London: Life before Emancipation". African American Review (31 ed.): 508.
  7. Porter, R. (1995). "Black London: Life Before Emancipation". The New York Times Book Review (30 ed.).
  8. Walter, Natasha (May 8, 2004). "Review | Sugar and spice". The Guardian. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  9. Mills, C. (2004). "Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden (review)". Children's Literature Association Quarterly (29 ed.): 270–272.
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