Jean Blewett was a Canadian poet, novelist and newspaper editor. She also used the name Katherine Kent in some of her work. She was born Jean McKishnie on the 4th November 1862 in the town of Scotia which lies in Kent County, Ontario. Her parents had emigrated from Scotland. She went to a local public school and then studied at St. Thomas Collegiate, showing ...
Janet Loxley Lewis was a 20th century American poet; the last survivor of an incredible generation of poets who began to publish works in the 1920’s, and one of the most influential women writers of her generation. During her highly successful career, which spanned over 70 years, she published over five volumes of poetry. Her writing was not however limited to poetry, ...
Jean Garrigue was the pseudonym used by a 20th century American poet who won honours and awards for her writing including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961. Besides her writing she was a newspaper editor and lecturer in English Literature at a number of colleges across the United States, serving as poet in residence at some of these establishments. She was born Gertrude Louise Garrigus ...
Jean Hans Arp was a German-French poet who was, perhaps, better known as a sculptor and abstract artist who used a variety of materials to create his art. There seems to have been some confusion over his nationality at first. When speaking in French he liked to be called Jean. When speaking in German he was Hans. He would eventually formally take ...
Jean Starr Untermeyer was a US born poet, college lecturer and translator of works by Hermann Broch, an Austrian author with whom she collaborated. She published at least six collections of her own poetry and wrote a memoir later in life. She was born Jean Starr on the 13th March 1886 in Zanesville, Ohio. Her well-to-do Jewish parents had family roots in Germany and ...
