| LC control no. | n 82027162 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3566.R35 |
| Personal name heading | Pratt, Minnie Bruce |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Night Heron Press |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0000 8147 7556 67803341 Q52433 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1946-09-12 |
| Death date | 2023-07-02 |
| Place of birth | Selma (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Syracuse (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Literature Social sciences Women in Print movement |
| Affiliation | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Syracuse University |
| Profession or occupation | University and college faculty members Writers Poets |
| Found in | The sound of one fork, c1981: cover (Minnie Bruce Pratt) Bulkin, E. Yours in struggle, 1988, c1984: CIP t.p. (Minnie Bruce Pratt) data sheet (b. 9-12-46) Wikipedia, Oct. 24, 2014 (Minnie Bruce Pratt (b. Sept. 12, 1946 in Selma, Alabama) is an American educator, activist and essayist; Professor of Writing and Women's Studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York where she was invited to help develop the university's first Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Study Program; Ph.D. in English literature from the University of North Carolina) Washington post WWW site, viewed July 10, 2023 (in obituary dated July 8, 2023: Minnie Bruce Pratt, a poet and essayist who explored issues of gender fluidity, the friction between acceptance and intolerance and personal struggles such as living apart from her sons after coming out as lesbian in the 1970s, died July 2 in Syracuse, N.Y. She was 76. Minnie Bruce Pratt was born Sept. 12, 1946, in Selma, Ala. She received her doctorate in Renaissance English literature in 1979 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Pratt taught at various universities, including the University of Maryland, and retired in 2015 as professor of writing and women's studies from Syracuse University) New York times, 16 July 2023: in an obituary on page 22 (Minnie Bruce Pratt, born Sept. 12, 1946 in Selma, Ala., died July 2 [2023] in Syracuse, N.Y., aged 76; a feminist poet and essayist whose collection "Crime against nature," which mapped her despair, anger and resilience after losing custody of her children when she came out as a lesbian, earned one of poetry's highest honors and made her a target of hard-right conservatives; her poetry and activism came out of the Women in Print movement; Ms. Pratt joined Feminary, a feminist journal and collective, and with a colleague she founded the Night Heron Press) |
| Associated language | eng |
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