Ground-breaking writer fought for women's rights with words
(NEWSER) - As a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew, Adrienne Rich felt triply excluded by society, and she used her long and influential career as a poet to fight for change. Rich, who has died from complications linked to rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 82, was one of America's best-known public intellectuals who addressed women's rights, sexuality, and racism in two dozen volumes of poetry and several of prose, the New York Times reports. She rejected the National Medal of Arts in 1997, citing the Clinton administration's "cynical politics." More»
