Gretchen Gerzina

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is an American author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies. Her academic posts have included being the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of Biography at Dartmouth College, working as a professor at Vassar College, and being a professor and a director of Africana Studies at Barnard College.

• 1989: Carrington: A Life
• 1995: Black England: Life Before Emancipation
• 2004: Frances Hodgson Burnett: The unexpected life of the author of The Secret Garden
• 2008: Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary 18th-Century Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend

• Rogers, P. (1996). "Black England - Life before emancipation", Times Literary Supplement. 8.
• Barthelemy, A. G. (1997). "Black London: Life before Emancipation", African American Review, 31, 508.
• Porter, R. (1995). "Black London: Life Before Emancipation", The New York Times Book Review, 30.
• Natasha Walter, "Sugar and spice", The Guardian, 8 May 2004.
• Mills, C. (2004). "Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden (review)", Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 29, 270-272.