Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde was born in Harlem, New York City, New York on February 18th, 1934 and passed away at the age of 57 on January 1st, 1992.

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Audre Lorde Stats: The most read book by Audre Lorde on Book Notification is Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, a Collection. The second most read book is Zami, a Non-Fiction book.

Below is a complete list of Audre Lorde books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Audre Lorde compendium: Essays, speeches, and journals
1845
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2
The First Cities
1968
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3
Cables to Rage
1970
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4
From a Land Where Other People Live
1973
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5
The New York Head Shop and Museum
1975
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6
Coal
1976
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7
The Black Unicorn
1978
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8
Chosen Poems, Old and New
1982
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9
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
1986
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10
A Burst of Light
1988
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11
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992
1993
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12
Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong: Three Stories in One Volume
1993
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13
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
1997
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14
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
2017
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15
Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
2018
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16
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
2020
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17
Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews: 1984-1992
2020
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18
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
2020
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Uses of the Erotic
1978
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2
An interview with Audre Lorde
1981
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3
Zami
1982
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4
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
2018
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5
When I Dare to Be Powerful
2020
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6
The Cancer Journals
2020
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List of Freedom Organizing Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism (By: Angela Y. Davis)
1775
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2
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties (By: Combahee River Collective)
1977
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3
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities
1985
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4
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
1985
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5
Apartheid U.S.A. / Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties
1985
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List of Audre Lorde Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
I Am the Darker Brother
1968
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2
The Black Woman
1970
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3
The Lesbian Path
1980
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4
This Bridge Called My Back
1981
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5
Home Girls
1983
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6
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology
1993
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7
Writing Women's Lives
1994
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8
Letters to America
1995
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9
Go the Way Your Blood Beats
1996
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10
Women Reading Women Writing
1996
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11
Earth-Shattering Poems
1998
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12
Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
1999
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13
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
1999
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14
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
2002
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15
Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader
2006
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16
Sisters
2009
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17
The Civil Rights Reader
2009
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18
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
2021
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19
Everything is Going to be All Right
2021
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20
100 Queer Poems
2022
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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde was born on February 18th, 1934. Audre passed away January 1st, 1992 at 57 years old. Audre Lorde was born in Harlem, New York City, New York.

Audre Lorde was the author of the Audre Lorde Collections series which consists of 18 novels. The Audre Lorde Collections series started in 1845 with the novel The Audre Lorde compendium: Essays, speeches, and journals. The most recently released novel in the Audre Lorde Collections series was The Selected Works of Audre Lorde which was released in 2020. There are no upcoming novels for the Audre Lorde Collections series.

Audre Lorde also wrote the Non-Fiction Books series which has 6 books including Uses of the Erotic and An interview with Audre Lorde.

Audre Lorde: Awards & Accolades

Audre Lorde books have been nominated for multiple awards, Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award, Literature, in 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award, Non-fiction, in 1995. I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award, Non-fiction, in 2010.

Related Authors

The most common authors followed by users who also follow Audre Lorde are:

  1. Charles Dickens, author of the novel: A Christmas Carol.
  2. Jane Austen, author of the novel: Pride and Prejudice.
  3. Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale Series.
  4. Ray Bradbury, author of the novel: Fahrenheit 451.
  5. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.

Audre Lorde: F.A.Q

When was Audre Lorde Born?

Audre Lorde was born on February 18th, 1934.

When did Audre Lorde die?

Audre Lorde died on January 1st, 1992 at 57 years old.

Where was Audre Lorde Born?

Audre Lorde was born in Harlem, New York City, New York.

What was the first book Audre Lorde wrote?

The first book written by Audre Lorde was The Audre Lorde compendium: Essays, speeches, and journals, published in 1845.

What was the most recent book Audre Lorde wrote?

Their most recently released work was The Cancer Journals (a short story) on November 5th, 2020.

How many books has Audre Lorde written?

Audre Lorde has written 27 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 18 books in the Collections, 6 books in the Non-Fiction Books, 3 books in the Freedom Organizing Series.

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