Marilyn Nelson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Marilyn Nelson

American writer

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1946

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Profession: writer, poet, translator, university teacher, school teacher, children's writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, and children's book author.
She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former poet laureate of Connecticut, She is a winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, and the Frost Medal.
From 1978 to 1994 she published under the name Marilyn Nelson Waniek.
She is the author or translator of over twenty books and five chapbooks of poetry for adults and children.
While most of her work deals with historical subjects, in 2014 she published a memoir, named one of NPR's Best Books of 2014, entitled How I Discovered Poetry.