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Biography of Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.
Name: Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.
Birth Date: June 7, 1943
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.
American poet Yolande Cornelia (Nikki) Giovanni, Jr. (born 1943), initially wrote poetry from a revolutionary African American standpoint in the 1960s, but later moved to more traditional themes and softer attitudes.Nikki Giovanni, née Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr., was born on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Gus and Yolande Giovanni. When she was still an infant, the family moved to a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, where both her parents worked as social workers. In 1957 Giovanni moved to Knoxville to live with her grandparents--the southern influence of Tennessee and her grandmother, Louvenia Terrell Watson, were strong factors in Giovanni's development.Giovanni attended an Episcopal school as a child and was a voracious reader of literature from T. S. Eliot to Richard Wright. In September 1960 she was an early entrant into the freshman class at Fisk University in Tennessee. At the time a conservative in her political views, she nevertheless …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Voices (1976); Mari Evans, editor, Black Women Writers: 1950-1980 (1984); and Margaret McDowell, "Groundwork for a More Comprehensive Criticism of Nikki Giovanni" in Belief vs. Theory in Black American Literary Criticism (1986).For biographical resources about Nikki Giovanni see Tate, Claudia, Nikki Giovanni, Twayne Publications, 1992. For autobiographical resources or works see: Baldwin, James, A Dialog, Lippincott; Giovanni, Nikki and Walker, Margaret, A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker, Howard University Press, 1983; Fowler, Virginia C., Conversations with Nikki Giovanni, University Press of Mississippi, 1992; Giovanni, Nikki, Racism 101, Quill, 1995; Giovanni, Nikki, The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni, William Morrow and Company, 1996; and Giovanni, Nikki, Love Poems, William Morrow and Company, 1997.For on-line resources about Nikki Giovanni see: http://www.ulspvt.k12mi.us/ELibrary/ELGiovanni.html, http://athena.english.vt.edu/Giovanni/Giovanni_biog.html, http://athena.english.vt.edu/Giovanni/Giovanni_pubs.html, and http://athena.english.vt.edu/Giovanni/Giovanni_awards.html.
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