Nikki Giovanni Autographs
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she was named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends". Giovanni was a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.
Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution". During the 1970s, she began writing children's literature, and co-founded a publishing company, NikTom Ltd, to provide an outlet for other African-American women writers. Over subsequent decades, her works discussed social issues, human relationships, and hip hop. Poems such as "Knoxville, Tennessee" and "Nikki-Rosa" have been frequently re-published in anthologies and other collections.
Giovanni received numerous awards and held 27 honorary degrees from various colleges and universities. She was also given the key to more than two dozen cities. Giovanni was honored with the NAACP Image Award seven times. She had a South American bat species, Micronycteris giovanniae, named after her in 2007.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Nikki Giovanni (nikki giovanni / gemini an extended biographical statement on my Signed 1st 1971) was sold in November 2025 for $2,206.50 while the cheapest item (Chasing Utopia : A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni SIGNED 4th printing HC DJ) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2023. The month with the most items sold (21) was December 2024 with an average selling price of $85.00 for an autographed item of Nikki Giovanni. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2025 with $200.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was May 2023. In average, an autographed item from Nikki Giovanni is worth $50.00.
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‘Lessons in Survival: 1971’ Review: The Past Echoes in the Present (06/23/2022): The writer James Baldwin and the poet Nikki Giovanni are at the center of a crackling work of verbatim theater at the Vineyard Theater.
