Letter, 1972.

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Letter, 1972.

Letter to Ken McCormick of Doubleday explaining that her name is Laura (Riding) Jackson. She uses her husband's name Jackson and retains Riding in parentheses to maintain her professional identity. She acknowledges that this strategy is not very common.

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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...