Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Carver: A Life in Poems

Marilyn Nelson

112 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography poetry reflective medium-paced

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George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washin...

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