Marianne Craig Moore (1887-1972) was an award-winning modernist poet. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909 with a B.A. in history, economics, and politics. The poet was published for the first time in 1915, and by 1920, her poetry was frequently featured in The Dial, a magazine that served as an outlet for modernist thought and art. From 1925-1929, Moore was editor of The Dial. During the 1930s and 1940s, she published her poetry in books and did freelance writing. The 1950s and 1960s brought Moore fame and recognition: her Collected Poems, published in 1951, won her the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. She was also the recipient of The National Medal for Literature, France's Croix de Chevalier, and sixteen honorary degrees. Throughout her life, she participated in many speaking engagements and offered advice to young poets. Moore was also noteworthy for her iconic tricorn hat and her love for baseball and Brooklyn. The Marianne Craig Moore Papers include correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, manuscripts and artwork, news clippings, and ephemera, as well as reflections on the poet and poems written in tribute to her. A subset of the collection, the K. Laurence Stapleton Marianne Moore Papers include Stapleton's correspondence with the poet, materials related to the verse composition course Moore taught at Bryn Mawr, Stapleton's research notes, and manuscript and galley copies of her book, Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance. Correspondence and documents regarding the management of Marianne Moore's estate, Stapleton's fight to save the Dial Papers, and the establishment of the Marianne Moore Poetry Fund are also in this subset.
