Kizer, C. mss., 1825-2004

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Kizer, C. mss., 1825-2004

Consists primarily of the papers, photographs, and memorabilia of poet Carolyn Kizer.

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Kizer, Carolyn

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Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington in 1923, the daughter of activist lawyer Benjamin Hamilton and biologist/professor Mabel Ashley Kizer. After receiving her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied comparative mythologies with Joseph Campbell, et al . in 1945, she did a year of graduate work at Columbia University followed by another year at the University of Washington. In the 1950s, after three children and a divorce from first husband Stimson Bullitt, she t...