Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Born	March 21, 1905 Ontario, Oregon
Died	February 22, 1978 New York
Nationality	U.S.

Phyllis McGinley (March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978) was an U.S. writer of children's books and poet about the positive aspects of suburban life.

McGinley was born in Ontario, Oregon. At age 3, her family moved to Colorado, and on to Ogden, Utah after her father died.

She studied at the University of Southern California and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, graduating in 1927. She then taught at a junior high school in New Rochelle, New York for one year, until her career as a writer and poet took off.

Her poems were published in the New York Herald Tribune and The New Yorker, among others. She also wrote the lyrics for a musical revue, Small Wonder, in 1948.

In 1955, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters.

McGinley died in New York.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Collected poems 1.2 Collected essays 1.3 Children's books

[edit] Works

[edit] Collected poems

• On the Contrary (1934)
• One More Manhattan (1937)
• Husbands Are Difficult (1941)
• Stones from Glass Houses (1946)
• Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (1958)
• Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades (1960), winning a Pulitzer prize
• Sugar and Spice (1960)
• A Wreath of Christmas Legends (1967)
• Fourteenth Birthday (date unknown)

[edit] Collected essays

• Province of the Heart (1959)
• Sixpence in Her Shoe (1964)
• Wonderful Time (1966)
• Saint Watching (1969)

[edit] Children's books

• The Horse That Lived Upstairs (1944)
• All Around the Town (1948)
• Blunderbus (1951)
• The Make-Believe Twins (1953)
• The Year without a Santa Claus (1957)
• Boys Are Awful (1962)
• How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas (1963)

Persondata
NAME	McGinley, Phyllis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ontario, Oregon
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1978
PLACE OF DEATH	New York