Henrietta Breckenridge Boughton (1878–1961), better known by her pen name Barbara Young, was an American art and literary critic in the 1920s, as well as a poet. She met

Kahlil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...

at a reading of '' The Prophet'' organized by rector

William Norman Guthrie William Norman Guthrie also known as Norman de Lagutry (4 March 1868 – 9 December 1944) was an American clergyman and grandson of famous radical Frances Wright. His father, Eugène Picault de Lagutry, was the husband of Frances Sylva Piquepal d' ...

in St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery and served as his secretary from 1925 until his death. She revised and published Gibran's book '' The Garden of the Prophet'', after Mary Haskell made her revisions. Her book ''This Man from Lebanon: A Study of Kahlil Gibran'' was published by

Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. () is an American publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915. Blanche and Alfred traveled abroad regularly and were known for publishing European, Asian, and Latin American writers in ...

on January 15, 1945. Some of her writing was featured in Thomas Moult's anthology ''The Best Poems of 1931''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Barbara 1878 births 1961 deaths 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers American art critics American literary critics Women art critics American women poets American women literary critics