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Born in Baltimore, Maryland
to Arnold Rich and Helen Jones, Adrienne Rich grew up in financially comfortable and socially advantaged circumstances. -
Honored
Poet Adrienne Rich's first book was chosen by WH Auden for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. -
Graduated from Radcliffe
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Book: A Change of world
Selected for Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for this -
Married Alfred H. Conrad
A Harvard University economist; they had 3 sons -
Gave birth to her first child, David, published the second volume of The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems
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Another son was born, Paul.
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Her thrid son was born, Jacob.
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Rich published Leaflets, a collection of poems about the political turmoil of the 1960's. Her reputation as an activist poet was established.
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Rich won the National Book Award with the book Necessities of Life
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Rich published Diving into the Wreck, a poem that according to critics transcends any easy thematic labeling because of its sheer artistic beauty and metaphorical brilliance.