biography
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Riding, Laura
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née Reichenthal, married names Gottschalk and Jackson, pseudonyms Madeleine Vara and Barbara Rich
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| female
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| lived:
| (1901–91)
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| biography:
| Poet, critic, novelist, and polemicist, born in New York City, USA. She studied at Cornell, and published her first collection of verse, The Close Chaplet, in 1926. She was associated with Robert Graves, with whom she collaborated on several projects, including A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927). In 1941 she married Schuyler B Jackson, editor of Time, and signed herself Laura (Riding) Jackson. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1938. Other critical and literary works include Contemporaries and Snobs (1918), Anarchism Is Not Enough (1928), and Experts are Puzzled (1930). Her final book of poems, First Awakenings, was published in 1992. |
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