Grace Conkling

Grace Conkling

Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling (February 7, 1878 – November 15, 1958) was an American author, born in New York City, educated at Smith College and abroad. In 1914, she went to Smith to teach English. Her collected volumes of verse included:

• Afternoons of April (1915)
• Wilderness Songs (1920)
• Flying Fish: A Book of Songs and Sonnets (1926)

She attracted wide attention as the teacher of her little daughter, Hilda Conkling, whose Poems by a Little Girl (1920) displayed great ability at an early age. Grace copied down her daughter's poems as they were spoken, which is the only record that exists of Hilda's work.

References

• Smith College Archives
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. 

External links

• Works by or about Grace Conkling at Internet Archive
• Works by Grace Conkling at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)