Hearne, Vicki, 1946-2001

Victoria Elizabeth Hearne was born in Austin, Texas, on February 13, 1946, and grew up in a military family in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Having written poetry since her childhood, she studied writing and received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Riverside, in 1969. Hearne's published collections of poetry include Nervous Horses (1980), In the Absence of Horses (1983) and The Parts of Light (1994). She taught creative writing at the University of California at Riverside from 1980 to 1984. From 1984 to 1986, she was an assistant professor of English at Yale, and she was a visiting fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale from 1989 to 1995. She published several non-fiction books and numerous articles on animals and animal behavior, as well as a novel, The White German Shepherd. Hearne was also a trainer of dogs and horses throughout her life, and was an advocate for breeds of dogs labeled by legal authorities as dangerous. Vicki Hearne and her first husband were the parents of a daughter, Colleen Lerman. Hearne married Robert Tragesser, a professor of philosophy, in 1983. She died of lung cancer in Branford, Connecticut on August 21, 2001.

From the description of Vicki Hearne papers, 1920-2005 (bulk 1976-2001). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702181911

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