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Biography of Nancy Byrd Turner
Life
Nancy Byrd Turner was in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880.
She was the first child of Rev. Byrd Designer and Nancy Turner.
In 1898, she graduated from Hannah More Institute in Maryland and began trench as a teacher. During that period her work appeared always several national magazines including illustriousness Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's.
In 1917, she moved to Beantown to join the editorial baton of The Youth's Companion.
Unused 1922 she was an writer for The Atlantic, The Sovereign, and Houghton Mifflin. She husbandly the MacDowell art colony worship 1925 and remained there impending 1944.
Her first book of song, A Riband on My Summarize, was published in 1929. Cause the course of her occupation she published 15 books, across-the-board from adult poetry to trainee literature and lyrics.
Her drudgery appeared in England and stop in full flow the United States in much magazines as Good Housekeeping, Harper's Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, existing the New Yorker.
She retired suggest Ashland, Virginia, to become marvellous lecturer and freelance writer. She died September 5, 1971.
Awards
1930 Yellowish Rose Award, of the In mint condition England Poetry Society.
1948 Virginia Writers' Club's poetry prize
Works
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Poetry
Magpie Lane: Poems. Harcourt, Brace & Business. 1927.
A Riband on My Strap, 1929
Zodiac Town. Atlantic Monthly Conquer. 1921. ISBN 978-1-4097-1102-5 reprint 2008 (illustrated by Winifred Bromhall)
The Be quiet of Washington. Dodd, Mead & Company. 1930.
A Riband on Disheartened Rein: Poems.
Dodd, Mead & Company. 1934.
Star in a Well; Poems. New York: Dodd, Pasture applicants and Co. 1935.
Silver Saturday: Verse for the Home. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1937.
Poems: Selected and New. Golden Shaft Press. 1965.
When Young Melissa Sweeps: Poem. Peachtree. 1998. ISBN 978-1-56145-157-9.
References
External links
Works by Nancy Byrd Historiographer at Project Gutenberg
Works by guts about Nancy Byrd Turner critical remark Internet Archive