Adrienne Rich

1929

Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.
She is the author of nearly twenty volumes of poetry.  She is also theauthor of several books of nonfiction prose..

In 1999 Rich received theLifetime Achievement Award from the Lannan Foundation. Her previous awards
include the Academy Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lenore Marshall
Poetry Prize, the National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship; she is also a
former Academy Chancellor. In 1997 Adrienne Rich was awarded the Academy's
Wallace Stevens Award for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. She
lives in northern California.