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March 10, 1991 (59 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
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Celebrities born on April 19
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Etheridge Knight was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960. By the time he left prison, Knight had prepared a second volume featuring his own writings and works of his fellow inmates. This second book, first published in Italy under the title Voce negre dal carcere, appeared in English in 1970 as Black Voices from Prison. These works established Knight as one of the major poets of the Black Arts Movement, which flourished from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. With roots in the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, and the Black Power Movement, Etheridge Knight and other American artists within the movement sought to create politically engaged work that explored the African-American cultural and historical experience. Knight is also considered an important poet in the mainstream American tradition.

About Etheridge Knight

Poet Etheridge Knight was born in Mississippi, United States on April 19, 1931. He dies at the age of 59, on March 10, 1991.

Poems from Prison is a collection of poems by an African-American poet involved with the Black Arts Movement (published in 1968). A Poem for Brother Man, The Idea of Ancestry, and Born of a Woman are some of his other works.

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Etheridge Knight before becoming famous

Etheridge Knight was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1931 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Goat (羊).

He was able to get out of poverty by working as a medic for the United States Army. Regrettably, he was later imprisoned for robbery.

Achievement of Etheridge Knight

Between 1972 and 1974, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received both a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Etheridge Knight's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He married Poet Sonia Sanchez, a fellow poet, but their marriage was short-lived due to his drug use. He later married Mary McNally and had two children with her.

Sonia Sanchez, 89 (Poet)
Sonia Sanchez, 89

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Knight was inspired by Religious Leader Malcolm X's Autobiography to channel his rage over incarceration and injustice into a passion for creating poetry.

Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) (Religious Leader)
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)

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Etheridge Knight Income & Net worth

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