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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

Awards

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2000

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1978

Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2011

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 1990

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1991

Winner — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 1992

Shortlisted — National Book Award, 1991

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 1992

Winner — Lambda Literary Award, 2002

Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2004

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2017

Books by Adrienne Rich