[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)
Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications
AKA Thelma Lucille Sayles