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Bessie Anderson Stanley (born Caroline Elizabeth Anderson; March 25, 1879 – October 2, 1952) was an American writer, the author of the poem "Success" ("What is success?" or "What Constitutes Success?"), which is often incorrectly attributed [1] to Ralph Waldo Emerson [2] [3] or Robert Louis Stevenson. [4]
Kate Louise Brown (May 8, 1857 [1] – December 31, 1921) was a children's educator and author who wrote 17 works in a total of 41 publications, [2] in addition to poems, songs, and magazine articles. [2] She is best known for the books, The Plant Baby and Its Friends, Little People, Alice and Tom, and Stories in Songs. [1]
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) – A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, Kidnapped; Jennifer J. Stewart – If That Breathes Fire, We're Toast!, Close Encounters of a Third World Kind; Mary Stewart (1916–2014) – The Little Broomstick, Ludo and the Star Horse, A Walk in Wolf Wood
Greenfield was born Eloise Little in Parmele, North Carolina, and grew up in Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression in the Langston Terrace housing project, which provided a warm childhood experience for her. [1] [2] She was the second oldest of five children of Weston W. Little and his wife Lessie Blanche (née Jones) Little (1906 ...
Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963), writer of Newbery Honor-winning Brown Girl Dreaming, an adolescent novel told in verse. [36] Jane Taylor (poet) (1783–1824) co-wrote the ubiquitous Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star with her sister. Jean Sprackland (b.1962), is an English poet, the author of three collections of poetry published since 1997.
Mary Hannah Krout was born November 3, 1851, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, to Robert Kennedy and Caroline VanCleve (Brown) Krout.She attended a subscription school in Crawfordsville and then a public school. [2]
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.
They placed fourth in the 2004 National Poetry Slam and third in the 2006 and 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam. [41] Gibson was the first person to win the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. [42] Andrea has also been appointed as Colorado’s Poet Laureate by Governor Jared Polis. [43]