Hortense Flexner King (April 12, 1885 - September 28, 1973) was an American poet, playwright, and academic.
Life[]
Flexner attended Bryn Mawr College. She graduated from the University of Michigan, with a B.A. in 1907, and an M.A. in 1910.[1] She worked for the Louisville Herald.
She married cartoonist Wyncie King (1884-1961). They moved to Philadelphia, where they both worked for the Saturday Evening Post; he as a cartoonist, she as an editor.
She taught at Bryn Mawr from 1926 to 1940, and at Sarah Lawrence College from 1942 to 1950.[2] They were friends of Susan Clay Sawitzky,[3] and Martha Gellhorn.[4]
In 1961, she returned to Louisville.[5] Marguerite Yourcenar translated her poetry into French.[6]
Between 1911 and 1956 she published nearly 200 poems, in such magazines as the New Yorker, North American Review, and Poetry.[7]
Recognition[]
The University of Louisville awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1971.[8]
Her papers are held at the University of Louisville.[9]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Clouds and Cobblestones: Poems. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
- The Stubborn Root, and other poems. New York: Macmillan, 1930.
- North Window, and other poems. New York: Coward-McCann, 1943.
- Poems. Sutton Island, ME: Wyncie King / New York: composed and printed at Now & Then Press, 1961.
- Selected Poems (with foreword by Laurie Lee). London: Hutchinson, 1963.
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Presentation Critique d'Hortense Flexner Suivie d'un Choix de Poems (bilingual). Paris: Gallimard, 1969.
- Selected Poems. Louisville, KY: University of Louisville, 1975.
- Half a Star: Poems for Sutton Island. Somerville, ME: Port In A Storm Editions, 1993.
Juvenile[]
- Chipper (illustrated by Wyncie King). Philadelphia & New York: Stokes, 1941.
- The Wishing Window (illustrated by Wyncie King). Philadelphia & New York: Stokes, 1942.
- Puzzle Pond (illustrated by Wyncie King). Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1948.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[10]
Plays[]
- The Broken God (1915)[7]
- Voices (1916)
- The New Queen (1920)[7]
- Mahogany (1921)
- The Faun (1921)
- The Road
- The Little Miracle
- Three Wise Men of Gotham
Except where noted, information courtesy Maine State Library.[8]
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Poems by Hortense Flexner[]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ A Maine Writer: Maine State Library
- ↑ "Sarah Lawrence Magazine: The Value of Money". Slc.edu. http://www.slc.edu/magazine/money/fromthearchives.php. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
- ↑ Lindsey Apple (1997). Cautious rebel: a biography of Susan Clay Sawitzky. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-579-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=dbLRU_0bt0kC&pg=PA184&dq=Wyncie+King&hl=en&ei=VPIlTrGkHOi10AHm0dm2Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Wyncie%20King&f=false.
- ↑ Caroline Moorehead (2004). Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-7696-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=83DHziZQZ_gC&pg=PA292&dq=Wyncie+King&hl=en&ei=VPIlTrGkHOi10AHm0dm2Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Wyncie%20King&f=false.
- ↑ Kleber, John E. (2001). The encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813128900. http://books.google.com/books?id=pXbYITw4ZesC&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=Hortense+Flexner+King&source=bl&ots=byBbvSLd_c&sig=TrQqukOSmdzs82_y98pF5toc0yU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k-51UerqGae32wWa9oCACA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Hortense%20Flexner%20King&f=false.
- ↑ http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40838379?uid=3739936&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102083014141
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 King, Hortense (Flexner), Encyclopedia of Louisville, 484. Google Books, Web, June 17, 2015.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Flexner, Hortense (1885-1973), Maine State Library. Web, June 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Hortense Flexner (King) Papers". University of Louisville. http://louisville.edu/library/archives/findingaids/flexner.html. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ Search results = au:Hortense Flexner, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, June 17, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Recruit"
- Flexner in Poetry: A magazine of verse, 1912-1922: "Voyage," "Decoration for Valor," "Holiday Crowd," "Winged Victory"
- About
- Flexner, Hortense (1885-1973) at the Maine State Library.
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