A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery. By Jennifer Schuessler Around 1772 ...

Despite her literary success, Phillis Wheatley faced numerous challenges in her later years. She was granted freedom after the publication of her book in 1774 but struggled financially.

Waldstreicher’s book is not the first to question the white gaze through which Wheatley is often discussed; Vincent Carretta’s “Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” (2011 ...

A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of ... This book does the complexity of Wheatley’s life and work justice.

Poet Phillis Wheatley achieved an astonishing number of breakthroughs — she published the first book in English by a person of African descent, and was the third North American woman to publish ...

Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters): A Critical Attempt and a Bibliography of Her Writings. National Museum of African American History and Culture. Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ...

A first edition of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), written while the poet was enslaved to John Wheatley of Boston.The book has a brown leather cover, the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

The author of a new biography of poet Phillis Wheatley has received a $50,000 history ... Wheatley was the first American Black woman to publish a book and was among the most famous writers of ...

6 books by women to read this Women’s History Month. Women writers have always been at the heart of shaping literature, even when the world wasn’t exactly rolling out the red carpet for them.