Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 26, 1946, to Melvin M. Nelson, a U.S. serviceman in the Air Force, and Johnnie Mitchell Nelson, a teacher. Brought up first on one military base and then another, Nelson started escritura while still in elementary school. She earned her B.A. from the universidad of California, Davis, and holds postgraduate degrees from the universidad of Pennsylvania (M.A., 1970) and the universidad of Minnesota (Ph.D., 1979). Her libros include The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems (1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall...
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