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Maya Angelou ( / ˈændʒəloʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [ 1][ 2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning ...
0-571-19472-9. Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [ 1 ...
Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836), was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] She was the daughter of Ossip Abramovich Gannibal (1744–1807) and his wife, Maria Alekseyevna Pushkina (1745–1818).
Occupation. Poet, playwright, writer. Edward James "Ted" Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) [ 1] was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held ...
1995. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [ 1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't ...
Olive Senior. Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) [ 1] is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. [ 2] Senior was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2021.
Death. Bibliography. v. t. e. Edgar Allan Poe ( né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction ...
Mary Dow Brine. Mary Dow Brine (1838-1925) [ 1] was an American poet, novelist, and lyricist. Her best-known poem is "Somebody's Mother," and her most noteworthy book was " My Boy and I or On the Road to Slumberland ," an elegant book illustrated by Dora Wheeler and produced as part of a brief foray into publishing by Louis Comfort Tiffany.