•Nikki Giovanni was born Yolanda Corneila Giovanni in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 7, 1943. She grew up in the Lincoln Heights area, an all black neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio.She graduated from Fisk University in 1968 and went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania where she later dropped out. After she dropped out she moved to New York and enrolled in the M.F.A program at Columbia University. That same year she borrowed money to a publish her first book "Black Feeling Black Talk". The following year she published her second book which helped jump start her career as a writer. In 1969 she began teaching at Queens College. Her first two books Black Feeling, Black Talk ( 1968) and Black Judgement (1969) both reflected on the African American Identity.Giovanni lost both her mother and sister to lung cancer. She was devastated. In 1995, Giovanni was diagnosed with lung cancer. She travels to Ohio to have surgery at the Jewish Hospital. In 1969, Giovanni gave birth to her first and only child Thomas Watson Giovanni. She was only 25 at the time and single.
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•Nikki Giovanni was born Yolanda Corneila Giovanni in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 7, 1943. She grew up in the Lincoln Heights area, an all black neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio.She graduated from Fisk University in 1968 and went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania where she later dropped out. After she dropped out she moved to New York and enrolled in the M.F.A program at Columbia University. That same year she borrowed money to a publish her first book "Black Feeling Black Talk". The following year she published her second book which helped jump start her career as a writer. In 1969 she began teaching at Queens College. Her first two books Black Feeling, Black Talk ( 1968) and Black Judgement (1969) both reflected on the African American Identity.Giovanni lost both her mother and sister to lung cancer. She was devastated. In 1995, Giovanni was diagnosed with lung cancer. She travels to Ohio to have surgery at the Jewish Hospital. In 1969, Giovanni gave birth to her first and only child Thomas Watson Giovanni. She was only 25 at the time and single.
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