A professor of literature from Santa Cruz, California...

Lucille Clifton

Season 2 player (1986-01-30).

Lucille was also a poet who was quoted in OBJECTS OF VERSE $200 in show #8734, aired 2022-11-03 (2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4).

Lucille won about 2 games on the Art Fleming version of Jeopardy! in winter 1965. An Emory University page contains pictures of the front and back of the Final Jeopardy! clue display card from her last game. The clue was, She Made Her Last Movie, "A Kiss For Corliss," In 1949; on the back she wrote the correct response, Shirley Temple, and her incorrect response, Ethel Barrymore.

Lucille won the National Book Award in 2000 for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000.

Lucille was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1988 for Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980.

Lucille died 2010-02-13 at the age of 73 after a battle with cancer and hospitalization for an infection. Obituary. Obituary. Remembrance.

Lucille appeared in the following archived game:
#364, aired 1986-01-30 Beryl Arbit vs. Lucille Clifton vs. Mitch Gilaty Beryl Arbit game 4.

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