Educated at Bryn Mawr College and Carlisle Commercial College in Pennsylvania, Moore began teaching at Carlisle after graduation. In 1915, she began contributing poetry to the Egoist, an Imagist periodical. From 1921 to 1925, she worked as a branch librarian in New York City. Her first book, Poems, was published in London in 1921. In 1926, she became the editor ofThe Dial, continuing until its demise in 1929. Moore never married, but was a close friend of many male writers and poets including Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. In 1933, she was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson prize from Poetry magazine. In 1951, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her Collected Poems. Her Complete Poems appeared in 1967. The following year she suffered the first of many strokes that would eventually claim her life in 1972. Her other works include Observations (1924), The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936), What Are Years (1944), A Face (1949), Predilections (1955), Like a Bulwark (1956), O To Be a Dragon (1959), Eight Poems (1962), Dress and Kindred Subjects (1965), The Accented Syllable (1969) and Homage to Henry James (1971). |
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