Helen Smith Bevington (1906-2001) was an American poet, prose author, and educator. The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ...

She was born in Afton, New York, between 1906 March 17 and the end of that year, and grew up in Worcester, New York, where her father was a Methodist minister. Afton, New York is the name of both a town and a village in Chenango County, New York: Town of Afton Village of Afton For other places with this name, see Afton. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... Worcester is a town located in Otsego County, New York. ...

She attended the University of Chicago and got a degree in philosophy. She went on to do a thesis on Thoreau and earn a master’s degree from Columbia. Philosophy (from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom), as a practice, aims at some kind of understanding, knowledge or wisdom about fundamental matters such as reality, knowledge, meaning, value, being and truth. ... Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was a noted American author and philosopher who is most famous for Walden, his essay on civil disobedience, and his call for the preservation of wilderness. ...

In 1928 she married Merle M. Bevington; they travelled abroad, returning in 1929 in response to Black Thursday. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the protest against the Communications Decency Act, see Black World Wide Web protest. ...

Both Bevingtons taught English at Duke University starting in the 1940s -- in her case, 1943-1976. Duke University is a private university located in Durham, North Carolina in the United States. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Her husband passed away in 1964.

Aside from her books her work appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The American Scholar. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted each year on the magazines anniversary. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa society in Cambridge. ...

Bevington was a poet, a diarist and an essayist. Winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award (1956), the North Carolina Award for Literature (1973), and the Mayflower Cup (1974). Poets are authors of poems. ... See Diary (novel) for the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ...

She died Friday, 2001 March 16 in Chicago. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

Books by Helen Bevington

• Dr. Johnson’s Waterfall, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
• Nineteen Million Elephants, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
• A Change of Sky, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
• When Found, Make a Verse of. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
• Charley Smith’s Girl: A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.
• A Book & A Love Affair. NewYork: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
• The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
• Beautiful Lofty People. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
• Along Came the Witch: A Journal in the 1960s. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
• The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983.
• The World and the Bo Tree. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991.
• The Third and Only Way: Reflections on Staying Alive. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.