Leah Bodine Drake

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name = Leah Bodine Drake

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birthdate = 1914
birthplace = Chanute, Kansas, United States
deathdate = death date|1964|11|21|mf=y
deathplace = Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States
occupation = poet, writer, editor, critic
nationality = United States
period =
genre = poetry, Fantasy

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

Biography

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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