![]() ![]() She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. ![]() Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five “Living Legends.” Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of Americas most widely read poets. ![]() She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. ![]()
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