Leah Bodine Drake

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Leah Bodine Drake
Born 1914
Chanute, Kansas, United States
Died November 21, 1964
Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States
Occupation poet, writer, editor, critic
Nationality United States
Genres poetry, Fantasy

Leah Bodine Drake (1914 – November 21, 1964) was an American poet, editor and critic.

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Leah Bodine Drake was born in Chanute, Kansas in 1914. She attended Hamilton College for Women and Sayre College. She briefly worked as a Billy Rose dancer in a revue at the Fort Worth, Texas Centennial Exposition. Ms. Drake's poems were published in The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post and The Saturday Review. She was also a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. She received many awards from the Poetry Society of America and was also twice a recipient of the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award. Her first book of poetry A Hornbook for Witches was published in 1950.

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