Her most famous works include “The Black Unicorn,” “Hanging Fire” and “East Berlin 1989.”
The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Lorde grew up in Harlem. Her eyesight was so bad she was legally blind. She published her first poem as a teenager in Seventeen magazine and graduated from Hunter College. She cared deeply about language and expression, and some of her poems dealt with her strained relationship with her mother. She taught and joined the influential Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press while publishing poems. Her most famous works include “The Black Unicorn,” “Hanging Fire” and “East Berlin 1989.” You can read Audre Lorde’s work in the book Sister Outsider, available from publisher Penguin Random House.