Lucille Clifton AKA Thelma Lucille Sayles
Born: 27-Jun-1936 Birthplace: Depew, NY Died: 13-Feb-2010 Location of death: Baltimore, MD [1] Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Good Woman [1] Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
Father: Samuel L. Sayles (steel worker) Mother: Thelma Moore Sayles (d. 13-Feb-1959) Husband: Fred Clifton (m. 1958, d. 10-Nov-1984, six children)
University: Howard University Scholar: Visiting Writer, Columbia University (1995-99) Professor: University of California at Santa Cruz Professor: Humanities, St. Mary's College, Maryland
National Book Award for Poetry 2000 for Poems Seven
Author of books:
Good Times (1969, poetry) Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970, juvenile) Good News About the Earth (1972, poetry) All Us Come Cross the Water (1973, juvenile) An Ordinary Woman (1974, poetry) Generations: A Memoir (1976, memoir) Two-Headed Woman (1980, poetry) My Friend Jacob (1980, juvenile) Everett Anderson's Goodbye (1983, juvenile) Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir: 1969-1980 (1987, poetry) Next: New Poems (1987, poetry) Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (1991, poetry) Three Wishes (1992, juvenile) The Book of Light (1993, poetry) Poems Seven (1999, poetry)
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