Martha Hodes
Martha Hodes is Professor of History at New York University. She is most recently the author of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering (HarperCollins). Her book Mourning Lincoln(Yale University Press) won the Lincoln Prize, was a long-list finalist for the National Book Award, and was named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of two more award-winning books, The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (W. W. Norton) and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (Yale University Press). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker online, among other venues.