Louise Townsend Nicholl Explained

Louise Townsend Nicholl
Birth Date:1890
Birth Place:Scotch Plains, New Jersey, U.S.
Death Date:November 10,
Death Place: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]

Life

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]

Awards

Works

Poetry

Anthologies

Non-fiction

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2009. Farmington Hills, Michigan. Louise Townsend Nicholl.
  2. Book: The Smith College Monthly. 1912.
  3. Book: Drake, William. The first wave: women poets in America, 1915-1945. registration. 1 July 1987. Macmillan. 9780025334908.
  4. Book: The Writer. Hills. William Henry. Luce. Robert. 1919-01-01. The Writer. en.
  5. Book: The Writer. Hills. William Henry. Luce. Robert. 1925-01-01. The Writer. en.
  6. Book: Pope, Deborah. A Separate Vision: Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry. 1999-03-01. LSU Press. 9780807124666. en.
  7. Book: Saul, George Brandon. Quintet: Essays on Five American Women Poets. 1967-01-01. Mouton. 9783111013695 . en.
  8. Book: Frank, Elizabeth. Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Press. 1986. 978-0-231-06315-9 . 88.
  9. Book: Kaplan, Fred . Fred Kaplan (biographer)

    . Gore Vidal: a biography. 184. Fred Kaplan (biographer). Doubleday. 1999 . 978-0-385-47703-1 .

  10. Web site: George Dillon Papers an inventory of his papers at Syracuse University.
  11. Book: The Pulitzer Prize archive: a history and anthology of award-winning materials in journalism, letters, and arts. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-598-30181-0. 1997 .
  12. Search. The New Yorker. 2016-04-12.
  13. Book: Voto, Bernard Augustine De. Saturday Review. 1952-01-01. Saturday Review Associates. en.
  14. Book: The Dial. 1915-01-01. Jansen, McClurg. en.
  15. Book: The Literary Review. 1959-01-01. Fairleigh Dickinson University. en.
  16. Book: The Independent. Bacon. Leonard. Thompson. Joseph Parrish. Storrs. Richard Salter. Beecher. Henry Ward. Leavitt. Joshua. Bowen. Henry Chandler. Tilton. Theodore. Ward. William Hayes. Holt. Hamilton. 1923-01-01. founders of the Weekly Review. en.
  17. News: 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. News: 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 . May 11, 2010 . Harry . Gilroy.
  19. Web site: Previous Award Winners . 2009-07-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091101122607/http://www.poetrysociety.org/previous-awards.html . 2009-11-01 .

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