Laura Riding (Jackson) Collection 1926-1966
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McKain, David W.
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Award winning author and educator, McKain grew up in rural Pennsylvannia and attended the University of Connecticut. After a brief stint working for Holt, Rinehart & Winston and McGraw-Hill, McKain returned to the University of Connecticut to pursue his doctorate, which he completed in 1969. McKain is a retired University of Connecticut (at Avery Point) faculty member and he also served as a visiting professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1989. From the description of D...
Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
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Laura Riding, American writer, was born in New York and educated at Brooklyn High and Cornell Univ. She began writing poetry while in college and her early poems appeared in, The fugitive (edited by Allen Tate and Robert Warren), as well as Harriet Monroe's, Poetry (a magazine). In 1926, she published her first volume of poetry, The close chaplet. Riding has written and published criticism, essays, a journal, poetry, novels and short stories. She also ran the Seizin Press for some time. Her Coll...