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Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. [3] [4] Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he married a working-class, darker-skinned woman.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is the 2021 debut novel by American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. It explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present.
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2014 — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Jake Adam York (posthumous) 2013 — Sharon Dolin and Shara McCallum; 2012 — L. S. Asekoff and Sheila Black; 2011 — Forrest Gander and Robert Bringhurst; 2010 — Jill McDonough and Atsuro Riley; 2009 — Christina Davis and Mary Szybist; 2008 — Matthew Thorburn and Monica Youn; 2007 — Laurie Lamon ...
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson. My Remarkable Journey – Katherine Johnson; Other Black Girl: A Novel – Zakiya Dalila Harris; The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall; Will – Will Smith. Just As I ...
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
Lucy Bella Simkins (née Earl) is a British teacher of English as a foreign language and the creator of the educational channel 'English with Lucy' on YouTube.She was given the British Council ELTon Award for Innovation in English language teaching in 2017 and the Entrepreneurial Award by the University of Westminster in 2018.
Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, [2] in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle.