logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in New York City and raised in Washington, DC. She has published numerous books of poems, including AMERICAN SUBLIME (2005), which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, a young adult collection (co-authored with... show more
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in New York City and raised in Washington, DC. She has published numerous books of poems, including AMERICAN SUBLIME (2005), which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, a young adult collection (co-authored with Marilyn Nelson), MISS CRANDALL'S SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES AND LITTLE MISSES OF COLOR, which won a 2008 Connecticut Book Award, and, most recently, CRAVE RADIANCE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1990-2010. She teaches at Yale University, and this is her first picture book. You can visit her online at www.elizabethalexander.net.
show less
Birth date: May 30, 1962
Category:
Poetry
Elizabeth Alexander's Books
Recently added on shelves
Elizabeth Alexander's readers
Share this Author
Community Reviews
Momster Bookworm
Momster Bookworm rated it 10 years ago
I read this book in a very strange and unprecedented manner -- in reverse order, from the end forwards. This is a memoir, in which the author writes about her husband's sudden passing, and the journey through that loss.I started conventionally enough, and had only gotten a short way in, before I rea...
SJane
SJane rated it 16 years ago
this poem was too long, but I was thrilled about the occasion.
see community reviews
Need help?