Rita Dove
Born in Akron, Ohio in l952, Dove only recently became a "Southerner": In l993 she took the position of Commonwealth Profesor of English at the University of Virginia and now lives near Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, the German novelist Fred Viebahn, and their daughter, Aviva. Although a Midwesterner by birth, Dove can trace some of her personal as well as her artistic heritage back to the South
