Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood Missouri on November 15, 1887. She died February 5, 1972 in New York City.

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Dates Places of birth and dealth

• Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood Missouri on
  November 15, 1887. She died February 5, 1972 in
  New York City.

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Education

• Marianne began preparatory school at Metzger
  Institute, Carlisle at age 8. She finishes high
  school and enters Bryn Mawr college at age 17. In
  1909 she graduates and receives an A.B. She
  studied typing at Carlisle Commercial College for
  one year and graduates at age 22.

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Family Background

• Her grandfather, a Presbyterian Pastor, raised
  Marianne. After his death in 1894, she moved to
  Carlisle Pennsylvania with her family.

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Moore's Contributions

• She wrote freedom that was typical of other
  modern poets, often using quotes. Her language
  was exact, she often used very few words to get
  her point across.
• Marianne was fond of using animals, the natural
  world and professional baseball in her poems.

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Professions other than Writing

• From 1911 to 1915 she worked as a school teacher
  at the Carlisle Indian School. Marianne worked
  at the Hudson Park Branch of the New York Public
  Library from 1921 to 1923.

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Other Work Experiences

• After finishing her education she meets other
  poets, such as William Carlos Williams and
  Wallace Stevens. She contributes to the Dial, a
  prestigious literary magazine. She served as
  acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929.

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Awards and Recognitions

• She won the Bollingen Prize, 1953, the National
  Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She also
  received a Guggenheim fellowship and the M. Carey
  Thomas Award at Bryn Mawr College.

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Cute Fact

• She was a devoted baseball fan and was invited
  at the start of the 1968 season at Yankee Stadium.

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Moore Work Chroniology

• Poems
• 1915 First poems appear in egoist, poetry, and
  others.
• 1921 publications of poems by Egoist Press.
• 1924 Dial Press Publishes observations
• 1936 Publishes The Pangolin and other verse
• 1941 What Are Years
• 1944 Nevertheless
• 1951 Collected Poems
• 1956 Like a Bulwark
• 1959 O to Be a Dragon
• 1964 The Arctic Fox
• 1965 Tell Me, Tell Me
• 1967 Complete Poems

• Prose
• 1955 Predilections
• 1961 A Marianne Moore Reader
• 1987 The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore.

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Bibliography

• http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/c
  hronology.htm.
• http//www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7c00c0f
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• http//www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/mo
  ore.html