7 Facts About Audre Lorde

1. In 1966, Audre Lorde became head librarian at Town School Library in New York City, where she remained until 1968.

2. In 1968, Audre Lorde published The First Cities, her first volume of poems.

3. In 1984, Audre Lorde started a visiting professorship in West Berlin at the Free University of Berlin.

4. In 1985, Audre Lorde was a part of a delegation of black women writers who had been invited to Cuba.

5. In 1977, Audre Lorde became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

6. In 1968 Audre Lorde was writer-in-residence at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.

7. On her return to New York, Audre Lorde attended Hunter College, and graduated in the class of 1959.