Louise Townsend Nicholl
Louise Townsend Nicholl (1890, Scotch Plains, New Jersey – November 10, 1981, Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American poet, and editor.
Louise Townsend Nicholl
- Name
- Louise Townsend Nicholl
- Born
- 1890
- Birthplace
- Scotch Plains, New Jersey, U.S.
- Died
- November 10, 1981 1890
- Place of death
- Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- Smith College
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets · Shelley Memorial Award
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• Name — Louise Townsend Nicholl • Born — 1890 • Birthplace — Scotch Plains, New Jersey, U.S. • Died — November 10, 1981 1890 • Place of death — Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. • Occupation — Poet • Education — Smith College • Genre — Poetry
Life
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She graduated from Smith College, where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey. She worked at The New York Evening Post, Contemporary Verse, Measure (1921–1925), and was an editor at E. P. Dutton. She was a friend of Louise Bogan, and Gore Vidal. She corresponded with George Dillon. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Her work appeared in The New Yorker, Saturday Review, The forum, The Literary Review, The Independent, She lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and had three sisters, Mrs. Robert Lowery Van Dyke, Marion Nicholl Rawson and Mrs. John Sherburne Valentine.
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Awards
• 1954 Academy of American Poets' Fellowship • 1965 Lowell Mason Palmer Award • 1971 The Shelley Memorial Award
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- 1.Gale. Louise Townsend Nicholl. Contemporary Authors Online. 2009.
- 2.The Smith College Monthly. 1912.
- 3.Drake, William. The first wave: women poets in America, 1915-1945. Macmillan. 1 July 1987. 9780025334908.
- 4.Hills, William Henry. The Writer. 1919-01-01.
- 5.Hills, William Henry. The Writer. 1925-01-01.
- 6.Pope, Deborah. A Separate Vision: Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry. LSU Press. 1999-03-01. 9780807124666.
- 7.Saul, George Brandon. Quintet: Essays on Five American Women Poets. Mouton. 1967-01-01. 9783111013695.
- 8.Frank, Elizabeth. Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Press. 88. 1986. 978-0-231-06315-9.
- 9.Kaplan, Fred. Gore Vidal: a biography. Doubleday. 184. 1999. 978-0-385-47703-1.
- 10.George Dillon Papers an inventory of his papers at Syracuse University.
- 11.Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer. The Pulitzer Prize archive: a history and anthology of award-winning materials in journalism, letters, and arts. Walter de Gruyter. 1997. 978-3-598-30181-0.
- 12.Search. The New Yorker.
- 13.Voto, Bernard Augustine De. Saturday Review. Saturday Review Associates. 1952-01-01.
- 14.Jansen, McClurg. The Dial. 1915-01-01.
- 15.Fairleigh Dickinson University. The Literary Review. 1959-01-01.
- 16.Bacon, Leonard. The Independent. founders of the Weekly Review. 1923-01-01.
- 17.MISS AVIS VAN DYKE MARRIED IN GARDEN; New York Girl Wed to Edwin Clemence at Home of Aunt in Scotch Plains. The New York Times. June 13, 1937.
- 18.Gilroy, Harry. Poetry Society Hails Dante, 700; Young Writers Win Awards Set Up Through Bequest A 'Paradiso' Canto Is Sung -- Stahl Leads Work. The New York Times. January 22, 1965.
- 19.Previous Award Winners.
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