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Age: 82
Profession: Poet
Other Profession(s): Writer, Author, Essayist
Famous For: Poet and Feminist Won National Book Award
Higher Education: Radcliffe College
About (Profile/Biography):
The great poet Adrienne Cecile Rich was born on May 16, 1929, and died on March 27, 2012. As a poet, essayist, and feminist, she made a significant contribution to American literature. A widely read and influential poet of the second half of the 20th century, she was credited with bringing to the forefront of poetic discourse the oppression of women and lesbians. She criticized rigid forms of feminist identity and valorized a "lesbian continuum" of solidarity and creativity which impacts and enriches women's lives.
Career:
1951: A Change of World was Rich's first collection of poetry, published, her last year at college.
1955: The Diamond Cutters, her second book, was published. She regretted that it had been published and later wished that it had not been.
1963: The third collection Rich published was Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law.
Rich taught at Columbia University's School of the Arts and Swarthmore College from 1967 to 1969.
1976: Rich formed a partnership with Jamaican novelist and editor Michelle Cliff, which lasted until Cliff's death in 1996.
1976 to 1979: Adrienne Cecile Rich taught English at City College of New York and Rutgers University.
Adrienne Cecile Rich work as a poet and writer earned Rich the MacArthur Fellowship in July 1994, specifically the "Genius Grant".
Awards:
1950: Adrienne Rich received the Yale Young Poets Award
1960: Adrienne Rich received the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award
1970: Adrienne Rich received the Shelley Memorial Award
Unknown Trivia facts:
A Harvard University economics professor she met as an undergraduate, Alfred Haskell Conrad, married Rich in 1953.
