| LC control no. | n 79017249 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3553.O47447 |
| Personal name heading | Coleman, Wanda |
| Other standard no. | Q7967107 0000000116780476 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7967107 |
| Biography/History note | Wanda Coleman was an African American poet. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1946-11-13 |
| Death date | 2013-11-22 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | National Endowment for the Arts |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Novelists Political activists |
| Found in | Her Mad dog ... 1979: title page (Wanda Coleman) verso of title page (free lance writer from Los Angeles, in her 30's) 24 hours in the life of Los Angeles, c1984: CIP title page (Wanda Coleman) data sheet (b. 11-13-46) Los Angeles times WWW site, Nov. 25, 2013 (in obituary dated Nov. 23, 2013: Wanda Coleman; b. Nov. 13, 1946, Los Angeles; d. Friday [Nov. 22, 2013] at 67; poet) The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Coleman, Wanda; poet, fiction writer; born 1946 in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States; political activist during the 1960s; received an Emmy for her writing (1976), a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1981-1982), and a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry (1984); won the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets for Bathwater Wine (1998)) Coleman, Wanda. The riot inside me, 2005: page xiv (One of the banes of Black authors in the Western United States is our being too frequently left out of the larger cultural dialogues.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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