Read these facts and more about her here. In addition, a number of universities have published books about her body of work. Her recognitions include more than 25 honorary degrees (including a doctorate from Arizona State), an NAACP Image Award, National Book Award Finalist, National Medal of Arts (Barack Obama administration), National Humanities Medal (Bill Clinton administration), multiple Lifetime Achievement Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. Ultimately, as a US Poet Laureate, she became the first African-American Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Rita Dove (1952- ) taught creative writing in the English department of Arizona State University in the 1980s before joining the University of Virginia faculty as the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English.īorn in Akron, Ohio, and trained at the Iowa Writers Workshop, her career catapulted through several major universities. 1980s Typewriter ©Author Adventures Rita Dove, Arizona Poetry Leader
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