Rita Dove received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987 for Thomas and Beulah, a collection loosely based on her grandparents. In 1993, at age forty, she was named poet laureate of the United States, making her both the youngest person and the first African American to be elected. Author of eight volumes of poetry, a novel, plays, short stories, and essays, Dove holds the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Sambo, or: The Last of the Gibson Girls, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2008–2009