Nora B. Cunningham

Nora Belle Cunningham (1887-1975) was an American poet.

Life
Cunningham was born in Humboldt, Kansas, one of four children (two sons and two daughters) of Mary (Peery) and Lewis Nelson Cunningham. After graduating from the eighth grade in Chanute, Kansas, she obtained a teaching certificate and taught grade school for a short time in the nearby communities of Coyville and Rollins. She never married nor moved away from her parents' home in Chanute.

Cunningham published her first poem at age 32. Her literary career spanned the next 55 years.