Marge Piercy (The Sixties in America)
Early Life
Marge Piercy spent her formative years in a small house in a working-class neighborhood. She almost died from the German measles and then caught rheumatic fever halfway through grade school. She looked to books for consolation and became a voracious reader. At age seventeen, she won a scholarship that paid her tuition to the University of Michigan. In 1956, she received the Avery and Jule Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction and, in 1957, received the same award for poetry. The same year, she earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Michigan. In 1958,...
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