Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the
University of Connecticut, and the former
Poet Laureate of Connecticut. She is a winner of the
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the
NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, and the
Frost Medal. From 1978 to 1994, she published under the name
Marilyn Nelson Waniek. She is the author or translator of more than twenty books and five chapbooks of poetry for adults and children. While most of her work deals with historical subjects, in 2014 she published a memoir, named one of
NPR's Best Books of 2014, entitled ''How I Discovered Poetry''.
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