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2009 George Washington Book Prize Awarded at Mount Vernon
May 28, 2009
Update: Award-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed to visit Washington College, October 22
Annette Gordon-Reed dashed down from the Pulitzer Prize luncheon in New York on Thursday, May 28, to accept the 2009 George Washington Book Prize for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The winner of what The Washington Post styled "a literary triple crown"—which also included the National Book Award—Gordon-Reed was presented with a medal and $50,000 check from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which co-sponsors the prize with Washington College and George Washington's Mount Vernon. The black-tie dinner at Mount Vernon honoring this year's three finalists was attended by about 170 people, including faculty, board members, students and dignitaries from the worlds of publishing, academia and politics.
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Adam Goodheart, director of the C.V. Starr Center, which administers the prize, at the cocktail party on General Washington's lawn overlooking the Potomac with former Washington College first lady Libby Cater Halaby and Kay Enokido.
Washington College Dean and Provost Christopher Ames with his wife, Lauren.
Former Alumni Board Chair Jay Marchant '63 and his wife, Kai.
Starr Center Associate Director Jill Ogline Titus with her husband, Sean, a Washington College admissions counselor.
Jeremy Rothwell '09, Jan Van Ewijk '09 and Justine Hendricks '07 display the book prize finalists.
President Baird Tipson and Mount Vernon Regent Boyce Ansley present Annette Gordon-Reed with the book prize medal.
Boyce Ansley with Shannon McLachlan and Susan Ferber of Oxford University Press.
Washington College Trustee John Whitmore and Board Chairman Edward P. Nordberg '82.
Libby Cater Halaby with Washington College Trustee Benjamin G. Kohl.
President W. Roger Webb of the University of Central Oklahoma, where finalist Kevin J. Hayes is a professor, and his daughter Anna Grace Webb.
President Baird Tipson congratulates Shannon McLachlan of Oxford University Press, editor of finalist Kevin J. Hayes's The Road to Monticello.
Annette Gordon-Reed addresses the dinner guests.
Jeremy Rothwell '09, Justine Hendricks '07 and Jan Van Ewijk '09.
Annette Gordon-Reed with her daughter, Susan.
Mount Vernon Executive Director Jim Rees concludes the event with a toast to General Washington.
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