Born: 9 September 1934, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Wilsonia Benita Driver
The following bio was written by Emma Rosen, author of On This Day She Made History: 366 Days With Women Who Shaped the World and This Day In Human Ingenuity & Discovery: 366 Days of Scientific Milestones with Women in the Spotlight, and has been republished with permission.
Sonia Sanchez was born in 1934 as Wilsonia Benita Driver. She is a respected American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books. During the 1960s, she published poems in magazines aimed at African-American readers and released her first poetry collection, “Homecoming,” in 1969. Her contributions to American poetry earned her the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1993 and the Robert Frost Medal in 2001.
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