![]() ![]() ![]() She attended Hunter College, working to support herself through school. Lorde's love of poetry started at a young age, and she began writing as a teenager. Early LifeĪudre Geraldine Lorde was born on February 18, 1934, in New York City, and went on to become a leading African American poet and essayist who gave voice to issues of race, gender and sexuality. Lorde also wrote the memoirs The Cancer Journals (1980) and A Burst of Light (1988). ![]() More successful collections followed, including From a Land Where Other People Live (1973) and The Black Unicorn (1978). Audre Lorde attended Hunter College and Columbia University and was a librarian for several years before publishing her first volume of poetry, First Cities, in 1968. ![]()
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