FILE - This Oct. 10, 2007 file photo shows Pulitzer Prize winning author Natasha Trethewey at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. Trethewey, the nation's new poet laureate, is working on a memoir, currently untitled, that has been acquired by Ecco. The publisher, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced Monday, July 2, 2012, that the book is scheduled to come out in 2014. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)
Poet laureate Natasha Trethewey working on memoir
FILE - This Oct. 10, 2007 file photo shows Pulitzer Prize winning author Natasha Trethewey at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. Trethewey, the nation's new poet laureate, is working on a memoir, currently untitled, that has been acquired by Ecco. The publisher, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced Monday, July 2, 2012, that the book is scheduled to come out in 2014. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s new poet laureate will be telling her own story, in prose.
Natasha Trethewey is working on a memoir, currently untitled, that has been acquired by Ecco. The publisher, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced Monday that the book is scheduled to come out in 2014.
The 46-year-old Trethewey is the daughter of a white father and black mother. The memoir will tell of her childhood in the American South in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her collection ‘‘Native Guard.’’ This fall, she begins a one-year term as U.S. poet laureate.
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