Grace Conkling

Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling
Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling
Born	Grace Walcott Hazard (1878-02-07) February 7, 1878 New York City
Died	November 15, 1958(1958-11-15) (aged 80)
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Poet, English Professor
Spouse	Roscoe Platt Conkling
Children	Hilda Conkling Elsa Kruuse

Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling (February 7, 1878 – November 15, 1958) was an American author, a poet and an English professor.

Background

Grace Walcott Hazard was born in New York City on February 7, 1878. She earned a bachelor of letters degree at Smith College and then taught at the Graham School in New York. Hazard moved to France to study music, but she became ill and returned to the United States.

In 1905, Hazard married Roscoe Platt Conkling, and they lived on a ranch in Mexico. Conkling had two daughters, Hilda and Elsa. She died at the age of 80 on November 15, 1958.

Career

In 1914, Hazard taught English at Smith College where she remained till she retired in 1947.

Conkling attracted wide attention as the teacher of her little daughter, Hilda Conkling, whose Poems by a Little Girl (1920) displayed great ability at an early age. Grace copied down her daughter's poems as they were spoken, which is the only record that exists of Hilda's work.

Writings

Her collected volumes of verse include:

• Afternoons of April (1915)
• Wilderness Songs (1920)
• Flying Fish: A Book of Songs and Sonnets (1926)

External links

• Smith College Archives
• "Grace Hazard Conkling: 1878–1958". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
• Works by or about Grace Conkling at the Internet Archive
• Works by Grace Conkling at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)