Louise Townsend Nicholl | |
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Born | 1890 Scotch Plains, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | November 10, 1981 (aged 90–91) Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Smith College |
Genre | Poetry |
Louise Townsend Nicholl (1890, Scotch Plains, New Jersey – November 10, 1981, Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American poet, and editor.[1]
She graduated from Smith College,[2] where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey.[3]
She worked at The New York Evening Post, Contemporary Verse,[4] Measure (1921–1925),[5][6] and was an editor at E. P. Dutton.[7]
She was a friend of Louise Bogan,[8] and Gore Vidal.[9] She corresponded with George Dillon.[10]
She was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1953.[11]
Her work appeared in The New Yorker,[12] Saturday Review,[13] The forum,[14] The Literary Review,[15] The Independent,[16]
She lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and had three sisters, Mrs. Robert Lowery Van Dyke, Marion Nicholl Rawson and Mrs. John Sherburne Valentine.[17]