Quick Facts About Adrienne Rich
- Born
- May 16, 1929
- Died
- March 27, 2012
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Feminist
- Notable works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Known for
- On Lies, Secrets and Silence, The Dream of a Common Language, Diving into the Wreck
- Spouse
- Alfred Haskell Conrad
About Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich 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."
Biography source:
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Awards & Honors
Bollingen Prize
Poets' Prize
National Book Award
Lambda Literary Award
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Robert Frost Medal
Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellows Program
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Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
Wallace Stevens Award
Shelley Memorial Award
honorary doctor of Harvard University
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
honorary doctor of Brandeis University
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
