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| 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
2,655 words, approx. 9 pages
 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
2,606 words, approx. 9 pages
 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 Dove Information
968 words, approx. 3 pages
 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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 The Virginia Quarterly Review
Rita Dove, Dancing
01/01/2005: 2,956 words, approx. 10 pages Almost three centuries ago, in his youthful "Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope perceptively observed: "True ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." He here supplements the traditional comparisons-which he certainly also knew well-between...
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 World Literature Today
Rita Dove. Conversations with Rita Dove.(Book Review)
01/01/2005: 708 words, approx. 2 pages Rita Dove. Conversations with Rita Dove. Earl G. Ingersoll, ed. Jackson. University Press of Mississippi. 2003. xix + 198 pages. $46 ($18 paper). ISBN 1-57806-549-6 (550-X paper) In this edited volume of interviews, Rita Dove (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist, short fiction writer,...
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 The New York Observer
Step Into... The Cockpit!
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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