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Marilyn Nelson

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Gender Female
Age 77
Date of birth April 26,1946
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Cleveland
Ohio
United States
NationalityAmerican
Job Translator
Author
Poet
Education University of Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
University of California, Davis
Awards John Newbery Medal
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction
Poets' Prize
Official site marilyn-nelson.com
GenresPoetry
Nominations National Book Award for Poetry
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Date of Upd.
ID438126

Carver: A Life in Poems
How I Discovered Poetry
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
American Ace
The Homeplace
Fortune's bones
My Seneca Village
Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story Of The Greatest All-Girl Swing Band In The World
Mama's promises
Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
The Cachoeira Tales And Other Poems
Snook Alone
The Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Ostrich and Lark
The Meeting House
Beautiful Ballerina
Pemba's Song: A Ghose Story
Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color: Poems
Magnificat: Poems
Triolets for Triolet
For the Body: Poems
Partial Truth
They Want More Than Bananas
A Wreath for Emmett Till
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Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former poet laureate of Connecticut, She is a winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, and the Frost Medal.

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