Ruby Archer (Ruby Archer Doud or Ruby Archer Gray) (January 28, 1873, in
Kansas City, Missouri
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– January 23, 1961, in
Los Angeles, California
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) was an
American poet
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.
She was educated at Kansas City High School and by private tutors. She was married to Dr. Frank Newland Doud on March 27, 1910 and later to Benjamin Franklin Gray. She contributed poems, translations from
French and
German dramas and lyrics, and prose articles on art, architecture, music, Biblical literature, philosophy, etc. to papers and magazines.
Collection
*''Little Poems by Ruby Archer'', a reprint of the 1900 edition by
Kessinger Publishing
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(2009),
References
The California Birthday Book
1873 births
1961 deaths
American translators
Writers from California
Poets from Missouri
Writers from Kansas City, Missouri
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