History of adrienne rich

Arnold Rice Rich (a professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine) and Helen Jones Rich (a trained composer and pianist); educated at home, primarily by her mother, until the fourth grade, though her father, who had a fine library, encouraged her to both read and write poetry; attended Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, 1937–47; entered Radcliffe College in Cambridge, in 1947, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, graduated cum laude in 1951; her younger sister Cynthia graduated from Radcliffe five years later; married Alfred Haskell Conrad (an economist at Harvard), in 1953 (committed suicide 1970); lived with Michelle Cliff (1976—); children: David (b.