num_pages: 512
description: Culled from the private writings of the black lesbian feminist poet, this chronicle of her uncompromising life covers Lorde's childhood in Harlem, her groundbreaking career as a poet, her advocacy for various causes, and her final ten years in St. Croix battling breast cancer. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
titlecomplete: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
genres: Biography, Politics, Race, Queer, Nonfiction, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Poetry, LGBT
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 & Co Inc