Linda Leavall.
LINDA LEAVALL
HOLDING ON UPSIDE DOWN: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARIANNE MOORE (2014)
Winner of the Plutarch Award.
Mariann Moore (born 1887) was a leading American modernist poet. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Moore moved to New York where she lived with her mother until her mother’s death. Moore never married or had children.
Her first published poetry appeared in 1915. After moving to New York she mixed with the avamt garde artistic community, writing poems which were praised by leading poets of the day including Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot. At the age of 81 she received the 1968 National Medal for Literature.
The New York times wrote of the book: "The moment is ripe for [Marianne Moore] to be restored to us, depixified and complex. And so she has been in a swift, cool but empathetic new biography.”
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Linda Leavell graduated from Baylor University, and obtained her PhD in English at Rice University. She was for twenty four years a Professor of American Literature at Oklahoma State University.
