Honoree jeffers biography of nancy
Nancy Spears Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a full-tenure professor who's been teaching nearly two decades in the English department at the.!
Jeffers is Editor at Large for The Kenyon Review, and her writing has appeared elsewhere in African American Review, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
American poet and novelist (born )
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (born ) is an American poet and novelist, and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
She has published five collections of poetry and a novel. Her collection The Age of Phillis reexamines the life of American poet Phillis Wheatley, based on years of archival research;[1] it was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry.[2] Her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B.
Du Bois, was published by HarperCollins in
Biography
Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.[3][4] Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he married a working-class, darker-sk
