Rosemary Thomas

• Name — Rosemary Thomas • Born — 16 February 1901 • Died — 7 April 1961 • Place of death — New York, New York, US • Occupation — Poet, teacher • Education — * Smith College • Columbia University

Thomas graduated from Smith College in 1923. In 1950, she received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University for an essay on Lawrence Durrell, the British poet and novelist. She taught creative writing at various schools including Spence School and Brearley School in New York, Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and Oxford School in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1951, Thomas won the Twayne First Book Contest for her only book of poems, Immediate Sun. The book had a foreword written by Archibald MacLeish, who described her poems as having "a common quality, a characteristic idiom, and inflection the reader would recognize again as a man recognizes the inflection of a decisive voice". The book includes a poem about her brother-in-law, Canadian tennis star J.F. Foulkes, entitled "The Colonel". Her poems were also published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and in other magazines. The final years of her life, which she devoted entirely to her writing, were divided between her homes in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and New York City, where she died in 1961.