Eunice Tietjens
Eunice Tietjens (July 29, 1884 – September 6, 1944) was an American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor.
Career overview
Born as Eunice Strong Hammond in Chicago on July 29, 1884, she was educated in Europe and travelled heavily. She lived in Florida, New York, Japan, China, Tahiti and Tunisia, among other places.
Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in France, 1917-1918. Her poems had already begun to be published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, the noted poetry magazine, around 1913. She later became publisher Harriet Monroe’s associate editor there for more than twenty-five years. Tietjens' was considered a more patient and generous editor, whose style contrasted sharply with that of Monroe, who was not known to treat would-be contributors with "kid gloves".
Personal life
Her first husband was Paul Tietjens, whom she married in 1904 and by whom she had a daughter, Janet T. Hart. They divorced in 1914 and she remarried in 1920 to Cloyd Head, playwright and theatrical director, by whom she had a son, Marshall Head.
Death
She died in 1944 in her hometown of Chicago, aged 60 from cancer.[1]
Works
- Profiles from China (1919)
- Body and Raiment (1919)
- Jake (1921)
- Profiles from Home (1925)
- The Romance of Antar (1929)
- Poetry of the Orient (1928)
- Leaves in Windy Weather (1929)
- China (1934)
- The World at My Shoulder (1938)
Papers
Her papers may be found at: The Newberry Library Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections 60 West Walton Street Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324
References
External links
- Works by Eunice Tietjens at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Eunice Tietjens at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Intimate Circles | Eunice Tietjens at highway49.library.yale.edu
- Eunice Tietjens at Old Poetry at oldpoetry.com
- [1] and Eunice Tietjens Papers and Additions at Newberry Library
- Eunice Tietjens at Library of Congress Authorities, with 18 catalog records
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- American magazine editors
- 20th-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American poets
- American children's writers
- Newbery Honor winners
- Writers from Chicago, Illinois
- 1884 births
- 1944 deaths
- Cancer deaths in Illinois
- American women in World War I
- American women journalists
- American women poets
- Women children's writers
- 20th-century women writers
