Claire Pratt

Mildred Claire Pratt (born March 18, 1921 in Toronto ; † April 5, 1995 there ) was a Canadian graphic artist, poet and editor.

The daughter of the poet EJ Pratt Pratt fell ill with polio and osteomyelitis at the age of four, which resulted in a lifelong physical disability. An English and philosophy studies at Victoria College of the University of Toronto closed it in 1944 with a gold medal in philosophy from. This was followed by graduate studies (international studies) at Columbia University in New York. She also studied art at the Doon School of Art in Toronto at the Boston Museum of Fine Art .

From 1946 to 1950 Pratt operated the Claire Pratt Book Service in Toronto . From 1952 to 1954 she was an editor at Harvard University Press , from 1956 to 1965 editor at McClelland & Stewart . After that, her health problems forced her to quit , but she continued to work as a freelancer for Oxford University Press , McClelland & Stewart , Press Porcepic and Consolidated Amethyst .

Pratt began her artistic career as a graphic artist; her woodcuts have been exhibited in Canada and many countries in Europe. She later turned to poetry. Her poems have been published in various poetry magazines in Canada and the United States, and in 1954 her first volume of poetry, Haiku, was published . Her genealogical interests were reflected in the volume Silent Ancestors (1971). Music of Oberon was released in 1975 and Black Heather in 1980 . In 1990 she published two volumes of writings from her mother Viola Pratt : Viola Whitney Pratt: Papers and Speeches and Viola Pratt: A Testament of Love .

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SURNAME	Pratt, Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pratt, Mildred Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian graphic artist, poet and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1995
Place of death	Toronto