Audre Lorde (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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Audre Lorde began writing poems at an early age, as a child of West Indian heritage growing up in New York City’s Harlem. Her early work progressed from personal consciousness to encompass a radical critique of her society. Lorde was graduated from Hunter College in New York, then went on to study for a year at the National University of Mexico. She obtained a library science degree from Columbia University in 1961.
Lorde married attorney Edwin Ashley Rollins in 1962, had two children with him, and was divorced in 1970. From 1970 onward, there was a...
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