Grace Fallow Norton

Hazel McNair Hutchison (University of Leeds)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 29 Oct 1876
Died 1962
Activity 1910-1940

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Grace Fallow Norton (1876-1962) was an American poet whose work came to prominence in the 1910s. Although presented in superficially conservative forms and patterns of verse, her work shows a willingness to engage with disturbing, challenging subjects, including grief, war, politics and psychological violence. Her work has long been neglected, although she is now becoming more widely known for the series of poems which she wrote at the opening of the First World War, and which appear in her collection

Roads

(1916).

Norton was born and grew up in Northfield, Minnesota. Her mother, Catherine Rich, was the widow of John Albert Scriver, who owned the First National Bank of Northfield —the building famously and fatally raided by the James-Younger gang in 1876. Scriver died in 1873, and two

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Citation: Hutchison, Hazel McNair. "Grace Fallow Norton". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 August 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13253, accessed 24 November 2024.]