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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
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Birth: | 31st March, 1936 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Winning a Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction enabled her to finish college and spend some time in France, and her formal schooling ended with an M.A. from Northwestern University. Her first book of poems, Breaking Camp, was published in 1968.
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