Léonie Fuller Adams (9 December 1899 – 27 June 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her. She studied at Barnard College where she was a contemporary and friend of Margaret Mead. Wh...
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Léonie Fuller Adams (9 December 1899 – 27 June 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her. She studied at Barnard College where she was a contemporary and friend of Margaret Mead. While still an undergraduate, she showed remarkable skill as a poet, and at this time her poems began to be published. In 1924, she became the editor of The Measure.
Her first volume of poetry, titled, Those Not Elect, was in 1925.
In the spring of 1928, she had a brief affair with Edmund Wilson. Léonie apologized to Wilson for having "moped and quarreled" on the day she left for France. While in London, Leonie met H.D., who introduced her to several figures in the London literary scene; in Paris she was invited to tea by Gertrude Stein. At the...
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