Peggy Pond Church (1903–1986)
Autore di The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos
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Born in 1903 in Watrous, New Mexico, Peggy Church lived on the Pajarito Plateau as a child. In 1922, Church left New Mexico to attended Smith College. Returning home two years later, she lived at the Los Alamos Ranch School, which was founded by her father. Church moved from Watrous to Taos, New mostra altro Mexico, then to Berkeley, California, before finally settling in Santa Fe in 1960. Primarily a poet, Church is most known for her book The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos. In the book, Church tells the story of a woman who entertained scientists of the Manhattan Project at her bridge-side tea house. Church's other works include Wind's Trail: The Early Life of Mary Austin, New and Selected Poems, Familiar Journey, and Ultimatum for Man. Peggy Church died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Peggy Pond Church
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Pond, Margaret Hallett
- Data di nascita
- 1903-12-01
- Data di morte
- 1986-10-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Valmora, New Mexico, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Watrous, New Mexico, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New Mexico, USA
- Istruzione
- Smith College
- Attività lavorative
- poet
biographer
memoirist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1984)
- Breve biografia
- Peggy Pond Church was born Margaret Hallett Pond in the tiny town of Valmora, New Mexico. Her family ranched in the Santa Fe area for a time. In childhood, she explored the canyons and valleys of the Pajarito Plateau on foot and on horseback, and wrote her first poems during this period. She attended high school and college at boarding schools in California and on the East Coast, and then went to Smith College for a year. In 1924, she married Fermor Church, a teacher at the Los Alamos Ranch School run by her father, Ashley Pond, Jr., and had three sons. Peggy published eight volumes of poetry, beginning with Foretaste in 1933, and contributed to national publications such as the Atlantic Monthly. She also was active in the modernist poetry movement that flourished in Santa Fe from the 1920s through the 1930s. In 1928, Edith Warner came to work as a governess for one of the ranch families, and a close friendship developed between the two women. Eventually, Edith moved into a small house below the Otowi Bridge over the Rio Grande River near Los Alamos. Her story and Peggy’s were intertwined in Peggy’s dual memoir, The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos (1959). A posthumous poetry collection, This Dancing Ground of Sky: The Selected Poetry of Peggy Pond Church, appeared in 1993.
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- Opere
- 15
- Utenti
- 243
- Popolarità
- #93,557
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 18