Adrienne Rich

(Wikipedia) - Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet, essayist and feminist.
In 1951, the year she graduated from Radcliffe College, Adrienne Rich received the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, which led to the publication of her first book, A Change of World. The contest judge for that year, poet W. H. Auden, wrote an introduction to this volume.
The following year, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled to Europe, then married Harvard University economist Alfred H. Conrad in 1953. Three years later, she published her second volume, The Diamond Cutters, yet it wasn't until her third volume, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, which appeared in 1963, that she gained national prominence. Continued