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Black History Month is currently being celebrated in the USA, and Google is honoring this with a doodle about the African-American writer Audre Lorde, who turned 87 on February 18, 2021.
She was born in Harlem, New York in 1934 and began writing poetry as a schoolgirl.
At the age of 15 she published her first poem in a magazine.
Audre Lorde: "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet"
In 1961, she completed a degree in library science, taught in schools and continued to write.
She described herself as "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" (black, lesbian, mother, fighter, poet).
Her first collection of poems appeared in 1968.
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From 1984 to 1992 she taught at the Free University in Berlin.
In addition to poems, she also published numerous prose works.
In 1989 she was awarded the American Book Prize.