Best-Selling Author Dr. Yvonne Thornton

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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.

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.

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.