Dove, Rita

LC control no.	n 80111701
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3554.O884
Personal name heading	Dove, Rita *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Dav, Riṭah דאב, ריטה
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1952-08-28
Place of birth	Akron (Ohio)
Field of activity	English language
Affiliation	Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) University of Iowa Arizona State University University of Virginia
Profession or occupation	College teachers Poets
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Ten poems, 1977: title page (Rita Dove) Fifth Sunday, 1985: title page (Rita Dove) page 71 (b. in Akron, Ohio, 1952; lives in Tempe, Ariz. & teaches at Ariz. St. Univ.) IMDb, May 22, 2009 (Rita Dove; b. Aug. 28, 1952, Akron, Ohio, USA; writer, self) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Dove, Rita; poet laureate of the United States; born 28 August 1952 in Akron, Ohio, United States; her book of poetry, Thomas and Beulah, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987; graduated summa cum laude from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; studied at the University of Tubingen, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar (1974-1975); MFA, University of Iowa (1977); in 1980s she was a professor of English at Arizona State University and a writer in residence at the Tuskegee Institute; named a Mellon Fellow by the National Humanities Center (1988-1989) and a Phi Beta Kappa poet by Harvard University (1993); the NAACP gave her its Great American Artist Award (1993); Commonwealth Professor of English at University of Virginia (1993)) Aruḥat boḳer shel alufim, 2000; t.p. (ריטה דאב = Riṭah Dav)
Associated language	eng