Hubbell, Ruth Ann, 1897-1986

Poet and librarian, of Washington, D.C.

From the description of Papers, 1905-1977. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19643125

Poet and librarian, of Washington, D.C. Also sister of Jay B. Hubbell, Professor of American Literature, Duke University.

From the description of Papers, 1918-1986. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43738311

Ruth Ann Hubbell was born in Smyth County, Virginia and grew up in western Virginia and North Carolina. She attended high school in Elkin, North Carolina. She received a B.A. from Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1919 and began teaching at the primary level. She returned to graduate study at Columbia University in New York, where she received a Master's in English in 1921. Then she studied psychology for a year at New York University. She taught briefly at Denton, Colorado; Appalchian State Teachers College, Boone, North Carolina; and Intermont, Virginia. She returned to New York and studied Library Science at New York City College, receiving a certificate in 1926. She then accepted a position in the Public Library in Washington, D.C. as Reference Assistant and Assistant Director of Adult Work. She remained there from 1926 to 1932, when she trasferred to the Northeast Branch as Reference Librarian. In 1939, she returned to the Central Library as Readers' Advisor in Literature where she worked for two years before going to the Georgetown Branch as Reference Librarian. At the time of her retirement in 1965, she was Reference Librarian and First Assistant in the Georgetown Branch. After retirement, she traveled extensively and was active in church and club work. She wrote a number of poems that were accepted for publication in numerous magazines. Copies of many of these poems were sent to her brother, Jay Broadus Hubbell, professor of literature at Duke University, and may be found in the biographical materials in the Jay B. Hubbell Papers in the Rubenstein Library at Duke.

From the guide to the Ruth Ann Hubbell Papers, and undated, bulk 1926-1972, 1905-1986, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)