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Also Known As Paulette Linda Williams
Born October 18, 1948 • Trenton • New Jersey
Died October 27, 2018 (aged 70) • Bowie • Maryland
Notable Works “Betsey Brown” • “Daddy Says” • “Ellington Was Not a Street” • “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” • “Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter” • “Nappy Edges” • “Ridin’ the Moon in Texas” • “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo” • “The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga” • “Three Views of Mt. Fuji” • “Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon” • “Whitewash”
Movement / Style Black Arts movement

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Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle (born 1929)
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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