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Lucille Clifton
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American poet (1936-2010)
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Lucille Clifton, born Thelma Lucille Sayles in 1936 in Depew, was an American poet, author, and university teacher. She wrote in English and worked in the fields of poetry and children's literature. Clifton was educated at Howard University and served as a faculty member at Columbia University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her notable works include *All of us are all of us*, *At the cemetery*, and *Walnut Grove Plantation, South Carolina, 1989*. Clifton received the National Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Robert Frost Medal. She was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She died in Baltimore in 2010.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1936
- Died
- 2010
- Works
- 54
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
- All of us are all of us
- At the cemetery, Walnut Grove Plantation, South Carolina, 1989
- Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Depew
- Place of death
- Baltimore
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Robert Frost Medal
- Image
- Lucille Clifton reading her poem 'Homage to Hips'.png
Show 5 more facts
- date of death
- 2010-02-13
- date of birth
- 1936-06-27
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- birth name
- Thelma Lucille Sayles
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