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Birth
Audre Lorde was born on February 18th, 1934 in New York City to West Indian Immigrant parents. -
Early Life
Audre Lourde had attended Hunter College from about 1951 to 1959, she earned herself a Bachelor’s degree and later a Master’s degree in 1961, for Library Science from Columbia University. She ended up worked as a librarian in Mount Vernon Public Library in New York until 1963, however she still wrote poetry and would publish her poetry. -
Early Life Achievements
Audre Lorde soon married to a man named Edwin Rollins in 1962 and they had two kids. During their marriage in 1968, Audre earned a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. During spring of the same year, she became a poet-in-residence at a College called Tougaloo College, it was known as a historically black institution in Mississippi. -
Mid-life hardships
During 1970 Lorde and Edwin ended up divorcing after Edwin came out as gay and Audre stating she was lesbian. -
New Marriage and Poetry
In 1972, two years after Lordes divorce she married again to her lifelong companion named Frances Clayton. The next year (1973) Lorde wrote another poem which was called “From a Land Where Other People Live”. She continued to write more poetry in 1978 and called it “The Black Unicorn”. -
Final hardships
In 1978, the same year Lorde wrote “The Black Unicorn” she was diagnosed with breast cancer. -
Movements she was apart of and Poetry
In 1980 Lorde wrote the memoirs “The Cancer Journals”. In 1984, during Lordes time in Germany she became an big and influential part of the then-nascent Afro-German movement. Audre Lorde and her fellow protesters gave rise to the Black movement in Germany. Four years later, in 1988, Audre wrote her last work of poetry, called “A Burst of Light”. -
Audre Lorde’s Death
Audre Lorde died on November 17th, 1992. She was remembered throughout history as a great poet and mother who raised awareness about racism and homophobia in society.
