The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.
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Biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley is winner of George Washington PrizeNEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher's “The Odyssey of Phillis ...
click image for close-up A rare portrait of Phillis Wheatley shows her facing forward, wearing an evening dress and jewelry. The portrait appeared in Revue des Colonies in Paris between 1834 and 1842.
In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old, she wrote a letter to Reverend Samson Occum, a Mohegan Indian and an ordained Presbyterian minister. Despite the difference in their ages ...
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