Elinor Wylie
Elinor Wylie (birth name: Elinor Morton Hoyt ; * 7. September 1885 in Somerville , New Jersey ; † 16th December 1928 in New York City ) was an American author of novels and poet .
Life
The daughter of lawyer and later US solicitor General Henry M. Hoyt and granddaughter of the Governor of Pennsylvania Henry Hoyt completed her education in 1904 at the Holton-Arms School in Washington, DC In 1906 she burned with the student at Harvard University Philip Simmons Hichborn, son a rear admiral , and married him on December 13, 1906. In 1910 she left Hichborn because of Horace Wylie and married him in 1916. The separation from his wife was ultimately the trigger for Hichborn's suicide in 1912.
In 1921 she made her literary debut with the anthology Nets to Catch the Wind , for which she won the Julia Elsworth Ford Prize . This includes the poem "Wild Peaches", in which she writes about the Scuppernong , the state fruit of North Carolina :
- "Winter will be short, summer long,
- the autumn amber, sunny and hot,
- Tasting like cider and scuppernong; "
- 'The winter will be short, the summer long,
- The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
- Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; '
After her divorce from Wylie, she married the poet William Rose Benét in October 1923, the third marriage . After the volume of poetry Black Armor (1923), the highly individual novels Jennifer Lorn (1923), The Venetian Glass Nephew (1925), The Orphan Angel (1926), which is about Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley , as well as Mr Hodge and Mr Hazard were published (1928).
After her death, three other anthologies appeared with the titles Angels and Earthly Creatures (1929), Collected Poems (1932) and Collected Prose (1933). While her novels seemed imaginative and artificial, the poems were short, direct, and positively written.
literature
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary . Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1629
- Nancy Hoyt: Elinor Wylie: The Portrait of an Unknown Lady , Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935
- Thomas A. Gray: Elinor Wylie . Twayne, New York 1969
- Stanley Olson: Elinor Wylie: A Life Apart: A Biography . Dial Press, New York 1979
- Judith Farr: The Life and Art of Elinor Wylie . Louisiana State University Press, 1983
- Evelyn Helmick Hively: A Private Madness: The Genius of Elinor Wylie . Kent State University Press, 2002
- Nancy Kuhl: Intimate Circles. American Women in the Arts. Catalog book with essays. Yale University Press , New Haven 2007 ISBN 0300134029 (including a chapter on Wylie; in English)
Web links
- Elinor Wylie in the nndb (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wylie, Elinor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoyt, Elinor Morton (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Somerville , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1928 |
| Place of death | New York City |