Warrior Poet – A Biography of Audre Lorde

Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and essential (Choice) biography of the author poet and American icon of womanhood black arts and survival. . During her lifetime Audre Lorde (1934-1992) author of the landmark Cancer Journals created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of the poets estate and numerous interviews Alexis De Veaux demystifies Lordes iconic status charting her conservative childhood in Harlem; her early marriage to a white gay man with whom she had two children; her emergence as an outspoken black feminist lesbian; and her canonization as a seminal poet of American literature.