Rita Dove

About Rita Dove

From 1993 to 1995, he served as the United States Poet Laureate. Sonata Mulattica and The Darker Face of the Earth are two of her most well-known pieces.

Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she was a poet poetry consultant for the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to be appointed since the post was created by Congress in 1986 from a former post of “poetry advisor”. Dove also received a nomination as "Special Poetry Consultant" for Bicentennial of the Library of Congress from 1999 to 2000. Dove was the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in year 2000. 1987, and she is the Virginia poet award winner. 2004 - 2006. From 1989, she taught at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where she served as the Commonwealth of English Professor of English.

Occupation	Poet, author, university professor
Alma mater	Miami University, University of Tübingen, University of Iowa
Born	Rita Frances Dove, August 28, 1952, Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality	American
Children	1
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1987), United States Poet Laureate (1993–95), Poet Laureate of Virginia (2004–06), 1996 National Humanities Medal, 2011 National Medal of Arts, 2019 Wallace Stevens Award
Notable works	Thomas and Beulah, The Darker Face of the Earth, Sonata Mulattica

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Trivia

She received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Thomas and Beulah, a collection published in 1986.

Rita Dove before fame

She went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Miami University.

Achievement of Rita Dove

Thomas and Beulah, a collection published in 1986, won her the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Rita Dove family life

In 1983, she and her husband Fred Viebahn welcomed their first child, Aviva.

Associations of Rita Dove

Bill Moyers, the journalist, interviewed her while she was the United States Poet Laureate.

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