Marge Piercy
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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist.
Woman on the Edge of Time (1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner She and It; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and sweeping historical novel set during World War II.
Life
Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Bert (Bunnin) Piercy and Robert Piercy. Although her father was non-religious from a Presbyterian background, she was raised Jewish by her mother and her Orthodox Jewish maternal grandmother, who gave Piercy the Hebrew name Marah.
Piercy wrote about her childhood and Jewish identity: "Jews and blacks were always lumped together when I was growing up." I didn't grow up 'white.' Jews were not white. My first black boyfriend was black. I didn't know I was white until we spent time in Baltimore and I went to a segregated high school. I can't tell how bizarre it was. Then I guess they didn't know I was Jewish."
Piercy, an indifferent girl in her early childhood, developed a love of books as she came down with the German measles and rheumatic fever in her mid-teenhood, but she could do little more than read. "It told me that there's a different world there, that there are all these horizons that were very different from what I could see."
Piercy was the first in her family to attend college after graduating from Mackenzie High School and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. Degrees were awarded in 1957. Since winning the Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction (1957), she was able to complete college and spend some time in France. She received an M.A. In 1958, I graduated from Northwestern University.
Piercy and her first husband left France and then returned to the United States after graduating college. When Piercy was 23 years old, they divorced. She lived in Chicago and survived on her books while unsuccessfully trying to get her books published. Piercy knew she wanted to write fiction that was about politics, feminism, and working-class people during this period. Piercy became active in Students for a Democratic Society following her second marriage. Breaking Camp, Piercy's first book of poetry, was published in 1968, and her first book was published the same year.
Marge Piercy was married to her first husband, a French Jewish physicist, at a young age. However, the marriage fell apart when she was 23 years old; Piercy attributes this to his interpretation of gender roles in marriage. Robert Shapiro, a computer scientist, married her second husband, Robert Shapiro, in 1962. Piercy and Ira Wood married her new husband, Ira Wood, after they divorced, and Ira Wood married her new husband. She and her husband live in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Piercy fabricated their house, where the couple have been living since the 1970s.
Awards and honors
- Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, 1992
- Bradley Award, New England Poetry Club, 1992
- Brit ha-Dorot Award, Shalom Center, 1992
- May Sarton Award, New England Poetry Club, 1991
- Golden Rose Poetry Prize, New England Poetry Club, 1990
- Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize, 1986, 1990
- National Endowment for the Arts award, 1978
- Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2004