She became a celebrity, and became acquainted with other celebrities, like Norman Mailer
, James Baldwin
, and Harry Belafonte
.
Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 23, 3 Dec. 2015, p. 19021.
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Reception
Marianne Moore
Elizabeth Bishop
, who wrote on MM
on several occasions, mentioned her in a letter of advice to a would-be poet as one of the great poets of our own century, who should be read...