Quote of the day
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Born: October 21, 1927
Died: December 2, 2008 (aged 81)
Bio: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea was an influential writer and filmmaker who spent much of her life in the field producing numerous ethnographies and films that capture the struggles and turmoil of African and Middle Eastern cultures. Her husband, the anthropologist Robert A.
Known for:
- Street in Marrakech (1975)
- The Arab World (1985)
- Nubian Ethnographies (1991)






