Karle Wilson Baker Writer

(Mrs.) Karle Wilson Baker (1878–1960) was an American poet and author, born in Little Rock, Ark. to Kate Florence Montgomery Wilson and William Thomas Murphey Wilson. Educated at the University of Chicago, she studied under poet William Vaughn Moody and novelist Robert Herrick, and later went on to write her own poems and novels. In spite of the frequent mordant bits, her poems have visions of real beauty.

Personal facts

PseudonymCharlotte Wilson
Birth dateOctober 13, 1878
Birth place
Little Rock Arkansas
Nationality
United States
Date of deathNovember 08, 1960
Place of death
Texas , Nacogdoches Texas

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External resources

  1. http://library.sfasu.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/controlcard&id=11
  2. http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/189/bio
  3. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall98/jackson.html
  4. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/poem1/blp_baker_company.htm,
  5. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/poem1/blp_baker_days.htm
  6. http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Home-Book-of-Verse-Volume-31.html
  7. http://www.hsus.org/about_us/accomplishments/the_people_who_have_shaped_the_hsus/remembering_charlotte_baker.html
  8. http://www.poemhunter.com/karle-wilson-baker/biography
  9. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-clear-night
  10. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/apple-and-rose