Marilyn Nelson

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As per our current Database, Marilyn Nelson is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).

🎂 Marilyn Nelson - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Marilyn Nelson is 78 years, 0 months and 6 days old. Marilyn Nelson will celebrate 79rd birthday on a Saturday 26th of April 2025. Below we countdown to Marilyn Nelson upcoming birthday.

🌙 Zodiac

Marilyn Nelson’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Marilyn Nelson was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.

About

American poet, children's author, and translator known for The Homeplace, Mama's Promises, A Wreath for Emmett Till, and other works. She served as Connecticut Poet Laureate in the early 2000s.

Before Fame

She studied at the University of California-Davis, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Minnesota.

Trivia

She founded a Connecticut writers' colony called Soul Mountain Retreat.

Family Life

The daughter of a teacher and a United States Air Force serviceman, she grew up on various military bases.

Associated With

She received the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal, an honor named for the renowned poet Robert Frost.

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