Alice Corbin Henderson
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Alice Corbin Henderson (16 April 1881– 1949) was a United States poet and editor.
Alice Corbin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother died in 1884, and Hendreson was briefly sent to live with her father's cousin Alice Mallory Richardson in Chicago, before returning to her father in Kansas after his remarriage in 1891.
Crobin attended the University of Chicago, and in 1898 published a collection of petry The Linnet Songs.
In 1904 she rented a studio in the Academy of Fine Arts, and it was there she met her future husband William Penhallow Henderson who was a teacher there. They married on October 14, 1905.
In 1912 her second collection of poems, The Spinning Woman of the Sky, was published, and she became assistant editor to Harriet Monroe at Poetry Magazine.
She left Chicago for New Mexico in 1916, after having been diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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- Biography at University of Texas
