Hemphill, Essex

LC control no.	n 92000332
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hemphill, Essex *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	65657573 0000000029631982
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1957-04-16
Death date	1995-11-04
Place of birth	Chicago (Ill.)
Place of death	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Affiliation	University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) University of the District of Columbia Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Profession or occupation	Poets Educators
Found in	His Ceremonies, 1992: CIP t.p. (Essex Hemphill) Gay & lesbian biography, 1997: p. 224 (Essex Hemphill, c. 1956-1995; African-American writer) p. 225 (died on November 5, 1995, from AIDS-related complications) African American National Biography, accessed January 29, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Hemphill, Essex; Essex Charles Hemphill; poet, educator, activist; born 16 April 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He studied English and journalism at the University of Maryland and received his degree in English from the University of the District of Columbia. He co-founded the Nethula Journal of Contemporary Literature (1978); formed the poetry performance group Cinque, Washington D.C. (1983). He was awarded the National Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual New Author Award (1992); was a visiting scholar at Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California (1993). He died 04 November 1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)