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Published January 1, 1928
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Elizabeth Alexander
106 books457 followersElizabeth Alexander is a Quantrell Award-winning American poet, essayist, playwright, university professor, and scholar of African-American literature and culture. She teaches English language/literature, African-American literature, and gender studies at Yale University. Alexander was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard during the 2007-08 academic year.
Alexander's poems, short stories, and critical writings have been widely published in such journals and periodicals as The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Village Voice, The Women's Review of Books, and The Washington Post. Her play Diva Studies, which was performed at Yale's School of Drama, garnered her a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship as well as an Illinois Arts Council award.
On December 17th, 2008 it was announced that she will compose a poem which she shall recite at the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009.
Alexander's poems, short stories, and critical writings have been widely published in such journals and periodicals as The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Village Voice, The Women's Review of Books, and The Washington Post. Her play Diva Studies, which was performed at Yale's School of Drama, garnered her a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship as well as an Illinois Arts Council award.
On December 17th, 2008 it was announced that she will compose a poem which she shall recite at the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009.
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May 5, 2025
N.B. This book is listed under the wrong author. Elizabeth Alexander, the poet, was born in 1962, and this book was published in 1928, so I'm pretty sure she can't be the author (nothing gets by me). I plan to submit this information to the Goodreads librarian group, and no doubt, in 5 or 6 years they will get this corrected.
I liked this book for the most part. I especially liked the heroine and how she was constantly striving to do better in her life. I didn't always agree with the way she went about it—and frequently found her behavior toward the hero bizarre—but I could usually understand her viewpoint. Throughout the book, the author made some trenchant observations about people that I enjoyed, but I didn't find the romantic payoff at the end terribly satisfying. However, it all worked out the way it was supposed to. I'm looking forward to ferreting out a few more Elizabeth Alexander titles (which, by the way, are also listed incorrectly on Goodreads).
I liked this book for the most part. I especially liked the heroine and how she was constantly striving to do better in her life. I didn't always agree with the way she went about it—and frequently found her behavior toward the hero bizarre—but I could usually understand her viewpoint. Throughout the book, the author made some trenchant observations about people that I enjoyed, but I didn't find the romantic payoff at the end terribly satisfying. However, it all worked out the way it was supposed to. I'm looking forward to ferreting out a few more Elizabeth Alexander titles (which, by the way, are also listed incorrectly on Goodreads).
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