Bartlett, Elizabeth, 1924-2008

Biography

Elizabeth Bartlett, née Winters, was born on July 20, 1921 in New York City. She studied at Teachers College, receiving her BS in Education in 1941. After graduation Bartlett traveled extensively, meeting and marrying Paul Alexander Bartlett in Mexico in 1943.

Throughout her life Bartlett continued to travel between the United States and Mexico, living in various cities while writing, editing, and teaching. She taught at several universities, including Southern Methodist University; San Jose State University; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and the University of San Diego. She worked as a poetry editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics and Crosscurrents and for several anthologies of poetry from the Literary Olympics. Her writing has been published in numerous journals, anthologies and books of collected poetry, including Poems of Yes and No (1952), It Takes Practice Not to Die (1964), Address in Time (1979), and Memory is No Stranger (1981).

From the guide to the Elizabeth Bartlett Papers, ca. 1940-1994, (Mandeville Special Collections Library)