Eunice Tietjens

Eunice Tietjens

Eunice Tietjens (July 29, 1884 - September 6, 1944) was an American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor.

Born as Eunice Strong Hammond in Chicago on July 29, 1884, she was educated in Europe and travelled heavily.She lived in Florida, New York, Japan, China and Tunisia, among other places.

Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the "Chicago Daily News" in France, 1917-1918. Her poems had already begun to be published in "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse", the noted poetry magazine, around 1913. She later became publisher Harriet Monroe’s associate editor there for more than twenty-five years.Tietjens' was considered a more patient and generous editor, whose style contrasted sharply with that of Monroe, who was not known to treat would-be contributors with "kid gloves".

Eunice Tietjens Head also wrote a memoir, entitled "The World at My Shoulder" (1938).

Marriage

Her first husband was Paul Tietjens, whom she married in 1904 and by whom she had a daughter, Janet T. Hart. They divorced in 1914 and she remarried in 1920 to Cloyd Head, playwright and theatrical director, by whom she had a son, Marshall Head.

Deaths

She died in 1944 in her hometown of Chicago, aged 60 from cancer (as per [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,796717,00.html?promoid=googlep Time Magazine] ).

Poems

Tietjens' poems include:
*"Old Friendship"
*"The Steam Shovel"
*"Presence of Eternity"
*"The Great Man"
*"The Most Sacred Mountain"
*"The Drug Clerk"
*"The Bacchante to Her Babe"

Papers

Her papers may be found at:
*The Newberry Library
*Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections
*60 West Walton Street
*Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324

External links

*
* [http://highway49.library.yale.edu/awia/gallery/tietjens.html Intimate Circles | Eunice Tietjens ] at highway49.library.yale.edu
* [http://oldpoetry.com/author/Eunice%20Tietjens Eunice Tietjens at Old Poetry ] at oldpoetry.com
*http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/tietjensadditions/TietjensAdditionsb.html


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