When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...

“Neither of us has forever,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotes Audre Lorde in her expansive biography of the prolific, Harlem-born poet and essayist. Lorde wrote this in a letter to Pat Parker, one of many ...

Shortly before her death, the eminently quotable Audre Lorde—an American original who became a major figure in women's, African-American and lesbian literature—took the African name "Gamba Adisa," ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Shortly before her death, the eminently quotable Audre Lorde -- an American original who became a major figure in women's, African-American and lesbian literature -- took the African ...

In the third chapter of “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde,” titled “prologue,” author and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes, “This biography will consider what Audre considered ...

“Survival Is a Promise,” a new biography by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, is an unabashed homage to the poet known for her political commitment and community building. By Ayten Tartici Ayten Tartici is a ...