- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 57 min., 2 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Poet Rita Dove was born in 1952, in Akron, Ohio. She served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. She was the author of many collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah in 1986, and Santa Mullattica in 2009. She is also the author of Fifth Sunday, a book of short stories; the novel Through the Ivory Gate; and the play The Darker Face of the Earth, which has been staged at many theaters including the Kennedy Center and the Royal National Theatre in London. Her song cycle Seven for Luck, with music by John Williams, debuted at Tanglewood in 1998. Dove worked as a commonwealth professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Besides her Pulitzer Prize, Dove's many literary and academic honors include the 1996 Heinz Award and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President William J. Clinton.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Rita Frances Dove
- Rita Frances Dove
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 1003150183
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Rita Frances Dove.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
035702
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2007 November 6.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Fiction Writer English Professor Poet.
- Added Author
Dove, Rita, interviewee.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.