Honoree jeffers biography sample
Honoree jeffers biography sample
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
American poet and novelist (born 1967)
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (born 1967) is an American poet and novelist, and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
She has published five collections of poetry and a novel. Her 2020 collection The Age of Phillis reexamines the life of American poet Phillis Wheatley, based on years of archival research;[1] it was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, and won the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry.[2] Her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B.
Du Bois, was published by HarperCollins in 2021.
Biography
Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.[3][4] Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he marri