1. Harryette Mullen began to write poetry as a college student in a multicultural community of writers, artists, musicians, and dancers in Austin, Texas.
13 Facts About Harryette Mullen
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Harryette Mullen was influenced by the social, political, and cultural movements of African Americans, Mexican Americans, and women in the 1960s and '70s, including the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power movement, the Black Arts Movement, the Chicano Movement, and feminism.
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Harryette Mullen has taught at Cornell University and currently teaches courses in American poetry, African-American literature, and creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Harryette Mullen has received a Gertrude Stein Award for innovative poetry, a Katherine Newman Award for best essay on US ethnic literature, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Harryette Mullen's poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, was a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Harryette Mullen is credited for rediscovering the novel Oreo, published in 1974 by Fran Ross.
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Harryette Mullen appears in the documentary film The Black Candle, directed by M K Asante, Jr.
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Harryette Mullen has stated that she was brought up in Fort Worth, Texas, but that her family is originally from Pennsylvania.
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Harryette Mullen recalls on the different languages that she learned as a child as opposed to those around her.
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When one hears the term different languages one thinks of languages that are spoken in other far away foreign places, yet Harryette Mullen is discussing the different types of English that are spoken in her community.
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Harryette Mullen says that she does not believe that certain vernaculars are particularly educated or uneducated; society has however decided for them that there is a right way of speaking and a wrong way.
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Language is the bridge that can connect two different cultures, and Harryette Mullen experienced the opposite of that when she was growing up at first.
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Harryette Mullen thought it strange that she could obviously see the blackness of different cultures and yet hold no true meaningful relation to it.