Henderson, Alice Corbin (1881–1949)
Henderson, Alice Corbin (1881–1949)
American poet and editor. Name variations: Alice Corbin. Born Alice Corbin in St. Louis, Missouri, 1881; died 1949; dau. of Fillmore Mallory Corbin and Lula Hebe (Carradine) Corbin; m. William Penhallow Henderson (artist), 1905;children: Alice Henderson Evans.
An associate editor of Poetry (1912–16), also wrote Adam's Dream and Two Others Miracle Plays for Children (1907), The Spinning Woman of the Sky (verse, 1912), Red Earth (verse, 1920), The Sun Turns West (verse, 1933), and Brothers of Light, the Penitentes of the Southwest (prose, 1937); co-edited, with Harriet Monroe, The New Poetry: An Anthology (1917); compiled The Turquoise Trail, an anthology of New Mexico poetry (1928).
See also Women in World History.
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