Hortense Flexner King (April 12, 1885 – September 28, 1973) was an American poet, playwright, and professor.

Life

She attended Bryn Mawr College. She graduated from the University of Michigan, with a B.A. in 1907, and a M.A. in 1910. She worked for the '' Louisville Herald''. She worked with her sisters,

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and Carolyn A. Flexner, in getting the vote out in Louisville when Kentucky women won the right to vote in school board elections in 1912. She married Wyncie King (1884–1961). They moved to Philadelphia. He was a contributor to the ''

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''. She taught at Bryn Mawr, from 1926 to 1940, and at

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from 1942 to 1950. They were friends of

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, and Martha Gellhorn. In 1961, she returned to Louisville. Marguerite Yourcenar translated her poetry into French. Her papers are held at the University of Louisville. She is buried alongside her husband in the Sutton Island Cemetery, in Cranberry Isles, Maine.

Works

;Poetry *''Clouds and Cobblestones'' 1920. *''The Stubborn Root and Other Poems'' (1930) *''North Window and Other Poems'' (1943) *''Poems'' (1961) *''Selected Poems'' (1963), with an introduction by English poet Laurie Lee *Marguerite Yourcenar (ed.) ''Presentation Critique d'Hortense Flexner Suivie d'un Choix de Poems'' (1969), *''The Selected Poems of Hortense Flexner'' (1975) *''Half a Star: Poems by Hortense Flexner'' ;Plays *Voices (1916) *Mahogany (1921) *The Faun (1921) *The Broken God *The Road *The Little Miracle *Three Wise Men of Gotham

References

External links

*https://archive.today/20130626181417/http://www.slc.edu/magazine/money/fromthearchives.html *https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=14418 Scrapbook Before 1929: Hortense Flexner "Are You Too Old to Learn ?..." * 1885 births 1973 deaths University of Michigan alumni Bryn Mawr College faculty Sarah Lawrence College faculty American women poets Poets from Kentucky Writers from Louisville, Kentucky American women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American poets 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American women writers American women academics {{US-playwright-stub