Marianne+Moore


 * Marianne Moore 1887-1972**

Marianne Moore was born November 15, 1887 in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Bryn Mawr College before moving to Brooklyn, New York with her mother to begin a successful poetry career. She edited the influential journal The Dial (1925–29) and her poetry volumes include Observations (1924) and Collected Poems (1951, Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes, National Book Award). Moore won a Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes and a National Book Award. She was a friend to many of the greatest artists and writers of the 20th century, such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, and E.E. Cummings.