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In recent years, Vaughn has overcome both kidney and breast cancer [3] Vaughn was friends with late country singer Loretta Lynn, whom she met through the Wilburn brothers in the 1960s. They bonded over similar writing styles and collaborated throughout their careers. Vaughn helped write Lynn's Grammy-nominated 2004 song "Miss Being Mrs. Lynn". [3]
Audre Lorde (/ ˈ ɔː d r i ˈ l ɔːr d / AW-dree LORD; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934–November 17, 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist.
Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles, in Depew, New York) [6] grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953. [7] She attended Howard University with a scholarship from 1953 to 1955, leaving to study at the State University of New York at Fredonia (near Buffalo).
Sally's breast cancer story. Two years after Flynn's diagnosis, her younger sister Sally Peterson learned that she also had breast cancer. ... it has brought us closer,” the 50-year-old said ...
The Cancer Journals is a very personal account and documentation of Lorde's battle with breast cancer. It examines the journey Lorde takes to integrate her experience with cancer into her identity. [4] It consists of three parts with pieces from journal entries and essays written between 1977 and 1979. [1]
Anne Boyer (born 1973) is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers (2008), [1] The 2000s (2009), [2] My Common Heart (2011), [3] Garments Against Women (2015), [4] The Handbook of Disappointed Fate (2018), [5] and The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (2019).
After Rose Kushner's June 1974 discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast, breast cancer became the focus of her life.On the basis of her library research into breast cancer treatment, she objected to the treatment which was then standard, in which a tumor biopsy and radical mastectomy were performed in a single surgical operation while the patient was under anesthesia.
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