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Adrienne Rich
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American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)
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Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an American poet, essayist, writer, and women's rights activist. Born in Baltimore and residing there and in Santa Cruz, she was educated at Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Her professional career included teaching positions at Brandeis University, Cornell University, and Columbia University. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and her archives are held at the Schlesinger Library.
Rich received the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program award, Bollingen Prize, and Lambda Literary Award. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her notable works include *The trees*, *Six women poets*, and *Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience*. She was influenced by Simone de Beauvoir and Sylvia Plath, and was unmarried partner to Michelle Cliff. She died of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 16 May 1929
- Died
- 27 March 2012
- Works
- 187
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- The trees
- Six women poets
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- Santa Cruz
- Occupation
- peace activist
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- National Book Award
- Field of work
- essay
- Official website
- adriennerich.net
- Image
- Audre Lorde, Meridel Lesueur, Adrienne Rich 1980.jpg
- Residence
- Santa Cruz
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- Commons category
- Adrienne Rich
- date of birth
- 1929-05-16
- date of death
- 2012-03-27
- archives at
- Schlesinger Library
- influenced by
- Sylvia Plath
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- cause of death
- rheumatoid arthritis
- medical condition
- rheumatoid arthritis
- unmarried partner
- Michelle Cliff
- manner of death
- natural causes
- married name
- Adrienne Conrad
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
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Encyclopedic overview
Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ˈædriɛn/ ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized the rigid identities that are sometimes created by feminism, called for feminism that is flexible and open to being transformed, and drew attention to the existing current of solidarity and creativity among women, which she named the "lesbian continuum."
Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Auden went on to write the introduction to the book. Rich famously declined the National Medal of Arts to protest House Speaker Newt Gingrich's vote to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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