Sapphire, 1950-

LC control no.	n 92089109
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3569.A63
Personal name heading	Sapphire, 1950- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Lofton, Ramona, 1950- ספייר, 1950-
Other standard no.	Q461075 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q461075
Biography/History note	Sapphire is an African American novelist and poet.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1950-08-04
Place of birth	Monterey (Calif.)
Affiliation	Brooklyn College NAPS (Performance group) Davis Center for the Performing Arts
Profession or occupation	Poets Novelists Performance artists Human rights workers
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Keep simple ceremonies, c1992: CIP t.p. (Sapphire) data sheet (b. 6/6/1950) Plain dealer, 7/6/96: p. 12-E (Sapphire, also known as Ramona Lofton; author of Push, a novel by the poet Sapphire) Contemp. lesbian writers of the US, 1993: p. 503 (Sapphire (Ramona Lofton), born August 4, 1950, Fort Ord, Calif.) p. 504 (presently a full-time teacher in a literary program in the Bronx) African American National Biography, accessed September 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Sapphire; Ramona Lofton; poet, fiction writer, performance artist, women rights advocate; born 04 August 1950 in Fort Ord military base near Monterey, California, US; enrolled in San Francisco City College as a premed student (1973); performed her own poetry (1970s); follower of the New Age movement; legally changed her name to Sapphire; worked as stripper; had her first publication in Azalea: a magazine by and for third world lesbians (1977); co-created NAPS, the first known black lesbian performing group in the United States (1977); bachelor of fine arts degree, Davis Center for the Performing Arts (1983); MFA in Modern Dance, Brooklyn College (1993)) Wilson, Mark (interviewer). MELUS37, no. 4 (2012), "A Push out of Chaos: An Interview with Sapphire": page 38 ([We] as African Americans are not exempt from the worst that people can be or the best that they can be.) <http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42001185.pdf>
Associated language	eng