In the 1960. A librarian, writer poet, teacher, feminist and lesbian, Lorde won numerous awards including a National Endowment for the arts grant and the American Library Association Gay, Caucus Book of the Year Award in 1981 for The Cancer Journals. She died of liver cancer in 1992.
A self designed, black, lesbian, mother, warrior and poet Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing