Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles ) (* June 27, 1936 in Depew, Erie County, New York, † February 13, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American writer who in 2000 for their anthology Poems Seven National Book Award for poetry received.

Biography

The daughter of a steelworker first studied at Howard University in Washington, DC and published in 1969 with Good Times her first book of poetry. In the following period, the mother of six children wrote next to the children's books Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970 ), All Us Come Cross the Water ( 1973), My Friend Jacob ( 1980), Everett Anderson's Goodbye ( 1983) and Three Wishes ( 1992) and her memoirs under the title Generations: A Memoir (1976).

It also published numerous other books of poetry such as Good Times (1969 ), Good News About the Earth ( 1972), An Ordinary Woman ( 1974), Two-Headed Woman ( 1980), Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir: 1969-1980 (1987 ) Next: New Poems (1987 ), Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (1991 ) and The Book of Light ( 1993).

During her tenure as a guest writer at Columbia University between 1995 and 1999, she wrote the 1999 book of poems Poems Seven, for which she received in 2000 the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry awarded. In addition, she worked as a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Most recently, she was a professor of humanities at St. Mary 's College in Maryland.

Obituaries

• THE NEW YORKER: Remembering Lucille Clifton (17 February 2010)