On poet Adrienne Rich’s husband, father, sister, and brother-in-law

This evening, while preparing for a discussion tomorrow of the title poem of "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law", by Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), I learned some new things about her family. I already knew that her husband Alfred H. Conrad (1924-1970) was the author of a groundbreaking 1958 study on the economics of slavery in the antebellum South. But these connections are new to me: her father, pathologist Arnold Rice Rich (1893-1968), has several diseases or conditions named after him. Cynthia Rich (b. 1933), like her sister, first married a scholar, physicist Roy J. Glauber (1925-2018), and later came out as a lesbian. And Glauber himself won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 3 March 2025)