Rosalie Moore, Gertrude Elizabeth Moore (October 8, 1910 in
Oakland, California
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– June 18, 2001 in Petaluma, California) was an American
poet
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.
Life
She graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley
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''magna cum laude'' with a B.A. in 1932; with an MA in 1934. From 1935 to 1937 she worked for radio station
KLX, and then the
Census Bureau. In 1937, she attended the poetry-writing classes of
Lawrence Hart.
She joined the group of poets known as the Activists.
She married William L. Brown in 1942; they have three daughters and three grandchildren living in
Marin County
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.
From 1965 to 1976, she taught at the
College of Marin.
Kay Ryan was her student. Her work has been published in ''Accent'', ''Furioso'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''Saturday Review''. Her papers are held at
University of Oregon
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library.
Awards
* 1938
University of Chicago
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's Charles H. Sergel award for poetic drama with her play ''The Boar''
* 1943 Albert Bender Award in literature
* 1949
Yale Series Younger Poet Award for ''The Grasshopper's Man'' (originally titled "Journeys Toward Center")
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1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
, 1951
Guggenheim Fellowship
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s
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Works
* ''The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems'', Yale University Press, 1949
* ''Year of the Children'', 1977 a book of poems dealing with the Children's Crusade in Europe in 1212 A.D.
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Anthologies
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Children's books
* ''The Forest Fireman'', Coward-McCann, 1954
* ''Whistle Punk''
* ''The Boy Who Got Mailed'', Coward-McCann, 1957
* ''Big Rig'', Coward-McCann, 1959
* ''The Department Store Ghost''
* ''Tickley and the Fox'', Lantern Press, 1962
* ''The Hippopotamus That Wanted to Be a Baby'' Lantern Press.
Play
* ''The Calydonian Boar Hunt.''
References
External links
Guide to the Rosalie Moore Papers at the University of Oregon*
1910 births
2001 deaths
Writers from Oakland, California
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American women poets
Yale Younger Poets winners
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
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