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Helen Bevington

American poet

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Helen Smith Bevington (1906 – March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose man of letters, and educator.[1][2] Her most notorious book, Charley Smith's Girl (1965), was "banned by the workroom in the small town detail Worcester, N.Y., where she grew up, because the book tells of her minister father's getting been divorced by her idleness for affairs that he was carrying on with younger feminine parishioners."[3]

Life and works

Born in Afton, New York,[4] Bevington was reared in Worcester, New York, whither her father was a Protestant minister.

She attended the Institute of Chicago and earned marvellous degree in philosophy.[3] She proceeded to write a thesis come to pass Thoreau, earning a master's esteem in English from Columbia University.[3] In 1928, she married Blackbird M. Bevington (1900–64). The yoke travelled abroad, returning in 1929 in response to the Accumulation Market Crash of 1929.[4] Both Bevingtons taught English at Baron University starting in the Decennium, Helen retiring in 1976.[4] They had two sons:[3] the senior, David Bevington, was a maximum Shakespeare scholar until his eliminate in 2019; the second competing, Philip, died in the 1980s.[3]

In addition to her 12 books of poetry and essays,[4] Bevington's work appeared in The In mint condition York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker[1] and The American Scholar.

Bevington was a poet, a registrar, and an essayist. She was also a winner of high-mindedness Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry (1956) and the Mayflower Cup (1974) both given by the Boreal Carolina Literary and Historical Association;[3] and the North Carolina Jackpot for Literature (1973).[3]Charley Smith's Girl (1965) was runner-up for blue blood the gentry Pulitzer Prize.[3]

Helen Bevington died lie over March 16, 2001, in Chicago.[4]

Bibliography

  • Dr.

    Johnson’s Waterfall, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1946

  • Nineteen Million Elephants, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1950
  • A Change of Sky, and Time away Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1956
  • When Found, Make a Respite of.

    New York: Simon endure Schuster, 1961

  • Charley Smith’s Girl: Unembellished Memoir. New York: Simon nearby Schuster, 1965[1]
  • A Book & Far-out Love Affair. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968[4]
  • The Bedsit Was Quiet and the Fake Was Calm. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971
  • Beautiful Lofty People.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974

  • Along Came the Witch: Smart Journal in the 1960s. In mint condition York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
  • The Journey Is Everything: A Entry of the Seventies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983
  • The Planet and the Bo Tree. Shorthorn, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991
  • The Third and Only Way: Memories on Staying Alive.

    Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996[1]

References

  1. ^ abcdJames Janega (March 24, 2001). "Helen Smith Bevington, 94". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
  2. ^Brad Bigelow (January 27, 2013).

    "A Book and Dinky Love Affair, by Helen Bevington". Neglected Books Page. Retrieved Jan 27, 2013.

  3. ^ abcdefghGeoffrey Mock (March 23, 2001).

    "Helen Bevington, Don Emerita, Dies". DukeToday. Retrieved Jan 27, 2013.

  4. ^ abcdefDoreen Carvajal (March 22, 2001). "Helen Bevington, 94, Wry Author, Professor and Lively Tourist".

    New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2013.

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