Adrienne biography

Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, She attended Radcliffe College, graduating in , and was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for A Change of World (Yale University Press, ) that same year.

In , Rich married Harvard University economist Alfred H.

Conrad. Two years later, she published her second volume of poetry, The Diamond Cutters (Harper & Brothers, ), of which Randall Jarrell wrote: “The poet [behind these poems] cannot help seeming to us a sort of princess in a fairy tale.”

After having three sons before the age of thirty, Rich gradually changed both her life and her poetry.

Throughout the s, she wrote several collections, including Leaflets (W. W. Norton, ) and Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Harper & Row, ). The content of her work became increasingly confrontational—exploring such themes as women’s roles in society, racism, and the Vietnam War.

The style of these poems also revealed a