Carolyn Rodgers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carolyn Rodgers

American writer

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1940

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 02-Apr-2010

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Carolyn Marie Rodgers (December 14, 1940 – April 2, 2010) was a Chicago-based writer.
The youngest of four, Rodgers had two sisters and a brother, born to Clarence and Bazella Rodgers.
Rodgers was also a founder of one of America's oldest and largest black presses, Third World Press.
She got her start in the literary circuit as a young woman studying under Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in the South Side of Chicago. Later, Rodgers began writing her own works, which grappled with black identity and culture in the late 1960s.
Rodgers was a leading voice of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) and the author of nine books, including How I got Ovah (1975).
She was also an essayist and critic, and her work has been described as delivered in a language rooted in a black female perspective that wove strands of feminism, black power, spirituality, and self-consciousness into a sometimes raging, sometimes ruminative search for identity.
She also wrote deeply on the subject of mother/daughter relationships, particularly focusing on feminist, matriarchal issues.