The Smith College summer reading selection for 2008 is the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry, Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey. The book is a study of family, memory, and race through the vehicle of the Native Guard - one of the first black regiments in the South during the Civil War.

For more information about the book and the summer reading program for first-year and entering students, please see the Summer Reading website.

Copies of Native Guard are available in Neilson Library, Smith College.

Visit the Houghton Mifflin website, publisher of Native Guard, to view full page images and look inside the book.

Biographical Information

Current Biography Yearbook 2007 -
p. 547-549. This source is available in many public and academic libraries including the Smith College Neilson Library, ref CT 100 .C8.

Natasha Trethewey's faculty web page from the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. View a biographical sketch, see a list of previous books published, read a poem, & use links to further resources.