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|  | | | Individual of the Week - Rita Dove
"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."
Today, all Americans who love poetry may feel they know Rita Dove. In
addition to her writing, and her television, theater and music
projects, she holds the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English at
the University of Virginia.
Her collection of poems, Thomas and Beulah,
based on the lives of her grandparents, earned her the 1987 Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry. She is only the second African-American to win this
prize.
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