Hortense Flexner
Hortense Flexner King (April 12, 1885 – September 28, 1973) was an American poet, playwright, and professor.
Life
She attended Bryn Mawr College. She graduated from the University of Michigan, with a B.A. in 1907, and a M.A. in 1910.[1] She worked for the Louisville Herald.
She married Wyncie King (1884–1961). They moved to Philadelphia. He was a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. She taught at Bryn Mawr, from 1926 to 1940, and at Sarah Lawrence College from 1942 to 1950.[2] They were friends of Susan Clay Sawitzky,[3] and Martha Gellhorn.[4]
In 1961, she returned to Louisville.[5] Marguerite Yourcenar translated her poetry into French.[6]
Her papers are held at the University of Louisville.[7]
Works
- Poetry
- Clouds and Cobblestones 1920.
- The Stubborn Root and Other Poems (1930)
- North Window and Other Poems (1943)
- Poems (1961)
- Selected Poems (1963), with an introduction by English poet Laurie Lee
- Marguerite Yourcenar (ed.) Presentation Critique d'Hortense Flexner Suivie d'un Choix de Poems (1969),
- The Selected Poems of Hortense Flexner (1975)
- Half a Star: Poems by Hortense Flexner
- Plays
- Voices (1916)
- Mahogany (1921)
- The Faun (1921)
- The Broken God
- The Road
- The Little Miracle
- Three Wise Men of Gotham
References
- ↑ "A Maine Writer: Maine State Library".
- ↑ "Sarah Lawrence Magazine: The Value of Money". Slc.edu. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
- ↑ Lindsey Apple (1997). Cautious rebel: a biography of Susan Clay Sawitzky. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-579-4.
- ↑ Caroline Moorehead (2004). Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-7696-7.
- ↑ Kleber, John E. (2001). The encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2890-0.
- ↑ Alesch, Jeanine S. (1 January 2007). "Une femme obscure: Marguerite Yourcenar Translates Hortense Flexner". Dalhousie French Studies. 78: 83–106. doi:10.2307/40838379 (inactive 2016-08-22). JSTOR 40838379.
- ↑ "Hortense Flexner (King) Papers". University of Louisville. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
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