Lucille Clifton

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Lucille Clifton (birth name: Thelma Lucille Sayles ) (born June 27, 1936 in Depew , Erie County , New York , †  February 13, 2010 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American writer who won the National Prize in 2000 for her anthology Poems Seven Book Award for Poetry .

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The daughter of a steel worker first studied at Howard University in Washington, DC and published her first volume of poetry, Good Times , in 1969 . In the following years, the mother of six children wrote the youth 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) also her memoirs entitled Generations: A Memoir (1976).

She has also published numerous other volumes 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).

It was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

During her work as a guest writer at Columbia University between 1995 and 1999, she wrote the volume of poems Poems Seven in 1999 , for which she received the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry in 2000 . She was also a professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz . Most recently she was Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College , Maryland. In 1999 she was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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SURNAME Clifton, Lucille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayles, Thelma Lucille (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Depew , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2010
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland