The Book Prize Index

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: African americans, biography -> BiographyFamily Biography

Award History

4 wins · 5 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMajor2009WinnerSecondary source
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2008WinnerSecondary source
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards: Nonfiction2009WinnerOfficial source
Frederick Douglass Book Prize: Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition2009WinnerSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor2008FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Thomas Jefferson62%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Monticello78%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    The Hemingses’ story is inseparable from their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson, and the family’s history is central to understanding Monticello.

    Model confidence 43%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    48 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 68%.