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Best-Selling Author Dr. Yvonne Thornton to speak at Sarah Lawrence College

Yvonne Thornton, author of the national bestselling family memoir, The Ditchdigger’s Daughters, will talk about her newest memoir, Something to Prove, and her career on Thursday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m. in Slonim Living Room on the Sarah Lawrence College campus.

 

Dr. Thornton is a double-board certified specialist in obstetrics, gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine and is a former departmental vice chair of OB/GYN at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in New York. She is now a consultant in perinatology and clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York Medical College in New York.

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Dr. Thornton is the first black woman in the United States to be board-certified in high-risk obstetrics. She was the first African-American woman to be invited to become an oral examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a life fellow of the New York Obstetrical Society and the New York Academy of Medicine.

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Her family memoir, The Ditchdigger’s Daughters, was adapted into an award-winning movie and translated into 19 languages. Her new memoir entitled Something To Prove, was named the grand prize winner at the 2011 New York Book Festival. Her other books include Inside Information for Women, Woman to Woman and Primary Care of the Obstetrician and Gynecologist.

 

For more information on this event, sponsored by the Women’s History Graduate Program at Sarah Lawrence College, please contact Tara James at (914) 395-2405 or tjames@sarahlawrence.edu.

 

Founded in 1972, the Master of Arts Program in Women’s History at Sarah Lawrence was the first to offer a graduate degree in the field. The program introduces students to the rapidly expanding literature in women’s history, feminist theory, and gender studies; trains them in historical research and interpretation; and encourages them to combine scholarship with activism both within and beyond the academy.

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