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Biography

Name: Rita Frances Dove
Birth Date: August 28, 1952
Place of Birth: Akron, Ohio, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet, writer, educator

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Biography of Rita Frances Dove
4,548 words, approx. 15 pages
Rita Dove's poems began to appear in print as early as 1974, but until 1987, the year she won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah (1986), her name was mentioned only occasionally in college classrooms and at meetings of learned...
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Biography of Rita Dove
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Award-winning writer Rita Dove boasts an impressive list of achievements. She is the creator of over ten books of poetry and fiction, including Thomas and Beulah which won the Pulitzer Prize when Dove was just thirty-five. She was appointed U.S. poet...
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Biography of Rita (Frances) Dove
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Although her literary achievements are impressive, the mark that Rita Dove's literary career will reach is for the future to determine. Her poems began to appear in print as early as 1974, but until 1987, the year she won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry...
 


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Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is an American poet and author. In 1987 she became the second African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950). From 1993 to 1995 she served as the first Black...


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10/26/2005: 400 words, approx. 1 pages
In honor of Salon's new women-only blog, The Broadsheet, where the ladies of Salon are speed-posting Rita Dove poems, meditations about Kotex advertisements, and a shocking new theory that the White House's smear of Joseph Wilson was intended to be emasculating, the New York Observer...


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