Books By Muriel Rukeyser - Author

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) was a poet, playwright, biographer, children's book author, and political activist. She won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for her first collection, Theory of Flight (1935), and became central to both American modernism and Leftist political communities over her five-decade career, mentoring scores of younger poets including Alice Walker, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, and Adrienne Rich, among many others. Rukeyser was born in New York City and attended Vassar College. After her death in 1980, Rukeyser's work suffered critical and popular neglect. However, Rukeyser's body of work has emerged as particularly vital and important to poets and scholars in the first decades of the 21st century.