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Leah Bodine Drake (1904–1964)

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The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 6th Series (1957) — Bidragyder — 139 eksemplarer
Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
La casa della strega (1994) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre (1961) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Poems of Magic and Spells (1960) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Rediscovery, Volume 2: Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957) (2022) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Horror Gems, Volume Two, Joseph Payne Brennan and others (2011) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Weird Tales Volume 45 Number 6, January 1954 (1954) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Horror Gems, Vol. One (2011) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato
1904-12-22
Dødsdag
1964-11-21
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Chanute, Kansas, USA
Dødssted
Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
Bopæl
Chanute, Kansas, USA
Evansville, Indiana, USA
Henderson, Kentucky, USA
Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
Dallas, Texas, USA
Fort Worth, Texas, USA (vis alle 10)
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Brownwood, Texas, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Uddannelse
Oakhurst School for Girls
Hamilton College for Women
Sayre College
Erhverv
poet
short story writer
editor
music critic
dancer
theater critic (vis alle 7)
poetry reviewer
Relationer
Schultz, David E. (editor)
Joshi, S.T. (editor)
Organisationer
Evansville Courier
Daughters of the American Revolution
Henderson Gleaner and Journal
The Atlantic Monthly
Kort biografi
Leah Bodine Drake was born in Chanute, Kansas. Her parents were oilman Thomas Hulbert Drake and his wife Cornelia Woodward Bodine. She claimed her family tree included 16th century author on magic Jean Bodin, to whom she dedicated her first collection of poems, A Hornbook for Witches (1950).

She attended Oakhurst School for Girls in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Hamilton College and Sayre College in Lexington, Kentucky. She briefly worked as a dancer in Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta in 1936-1937. She was already a published poet: her first poem, "In the Shadows," appeared in the October 1935 issue of Weird Tales. Her poems and short stories were published in many other national periodicals, including the Southern Literary Messenger, The Cornhill Magazine, Nature, Commonweal, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Poetry Chapbook, The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Saturday Review. From 1941 to 1951, Drake was a music and theater critic for the Evansville (Indiana) Courier. She was a board member of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and edited its monthly newsletter, The Baton.
In 1946, her "Ballad of the Jabberwock" was published in the anthology Dark of the Moon.

Her second collection of poetry was This Tilting Dust (1956), which won the Borestone Mountain Award and was chosen for publication by the Book Club for Poetry.



She
reviewed poetry for The Atlantic Monthly from 1957 to 1958 and also was a regular contributor to the magazine. At the time of her death, she was working on her third volume of poems, Multiple Clay, which never appeared until the 2020 publication of her works, The Song of the Sun: Collected Writings.

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