num_pages: 474
description: During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of the poet's estate and numerous interviews, Alexis De Veaux demystifies Lorde's iconic status, charting her conservative childhood in Harlem; her early marriage to a white, gay man with whom she had two children; her emergence as an outspoken black feminist lesbian; and her canonization as a seminal poet of American literature.
language: English
title: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
titlecomplete: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
genres: Politics, Biography, LGBT, Queer, Poetry, Race, Feminism, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 507
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company