biography
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Smith, Stevie
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pseudonym of Florence Margaret Smith
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| female
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| lived:
| (1902–71)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Hull, NE England, UK. Educated in London, she worked in publishing, then began to write herself. In 1935 she took her first collection of poems to a publisher, who rejected them and advised her to try a novel. The result was Novel on Yellow Paper (1936), a largely autobiographical monologue in a humorous conversational style. Her first book of poetry, A Good Time Was Had By All was published in 1937, and she gradually acquired a reputation as an eccentrically humorous poet on serious themes. Later books include Not Waving but Drowning (1957), The Frog Prince (1966), and Scorpion (1972). |
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