Elinor Wylie

Elinor Wylie (birth name: Elinor Morton Hoyt, born September 7, 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey, † December 16, 1928 in New York City ) was an American author of novels and poet.

Life

The daughter of a lawyer and later U.S. 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., 1906 it burned to the students at Harvard University Philip Simmons Hichborn, son of a rear admiral, by and married this on December 13, 1906. Hichborn 1910 she left because Horace Wylie and married this 1916., the separation from his wife was ultimately triggered the suicide Hichborns in 1912.

In 1921, she made her literary debut with the anthology Nets to Catch the Wind and won for the Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize. This includes among others the poem "Wild Peaches " in which they have the Scuppernong, the state fruit of North Carolina, writes:

After the divorce of Wylie married in October 1923 his third wife the poet William Rose Benét. After the poetry collection Black Armour (1923 ) Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard, the highly individual novels Jennifer Lorn (1923 ), The Venetian Glass Nephew (1925 ), The Orphan Angel ( 1926), which deals with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley published, as well as (1928).

After her death three more anthologies with titles Angels and Earthly Creatures (1929 ), Collected Poems (1932 ) and Collected Prose (1933 ) published. While her novels seemed fanciful and artificial, the poems were short, written directly and positively.