Soon thereafter, she won her first of two Guggenheim Awards. She married Alfred Conrad in 1953 and had three sons. But as the 1950s gave way to the 1960s, Rich became a feminist, embraced open-form verse, opposed the Vietnam War, and involved herself in radical politics. She and her husband separate
She was, like so many, profoundly changed by the 1960s. Rich married Harvard University economist Alfred Conrad in 1953 and they had three sons. But she left him in 1970 and eventually lived with her partner, writer and editor Michelle Cliff. She used her experiences as a mother to write "Of Woman B
A graduate of Radcliff University, she married a Harvard economic professor, Alfred Conrad, in 1953, and they had three children. Her spouse died in 1970 and six year later she and Cliff moved in together.