Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore in 1929, to a Jewish physician father and a Protestant pianist mother. She published her first collection the year she left Radcliffe, chosen by W. H. Auden for a series of young poets. In 1953 she married the economist Alfred Conrad, had three sons, separated from him in 1970 and became one of the voices of the women's movement. She produced two dozen collections and several books of prose, refused the National Medal of Arts in 1997 for political reasons, lived from 1976 until her death with the novelist Michelle Cliff, and died in Santa Cruz in 2012.

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• PoetryDiving into the WreckAdrienne Rich · 1973Literature