EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Sony Pictures Television has optioned Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s bestselling book Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, for development as a drama series.
A search for a writer is underway.The book, published by HarperCollins in July, is described as a chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy.The memoir was an instant New York Time bestseller.
It also was named a New York Times 2020 Notable Book and was named among the Ten Best Books of 2020 by both Time and The Washington Post.
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