A new collection of works by and about Phillis Wheatley includes a rare handwritten manuscript of the poet's 1773 poem titled "Ocean." Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child ... the Wheatleys gave her the tools to learn reading and writing. By the ...

“Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters): A Critical Attempt and a Bibliography of Her Writings,” from 1915 (and translated from German). “I just love that,” he said. During the Black Arts ...

“Phillis Wheatley was admired by George Washington ... biography offers a long overdue account of Wheatley’s life and works, expanding our understanding of America’s complex history.” ...

One Amazing Find Phillis Wheatley Peters’s writing desk was not a desk at all! It was a petite folded-top mahogany card table that one would find in a New England home’s front room parlor. One side of ...

Biography of 18th Century Poet Phillis Wheatley Is Winner of George Washington Prize NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets ...

David Waldstreicher's “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journey Through American Slavery and Independence" is this year's winner of the George Washington Prize, which honors works ...