Frank Crane.Įarly life Found in 1 Collection or Record: She is supposedly related to Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, and the publicist, Dr. He was an early promoter of her work, stating, "some of the critics explained the work by insisting that the child was some sort of medium, an instrument unaware of what was played upon it others, considering the book a hoax, scorned the fact that any child could have written verses so smooth in execution and so remarkable in spiritual overtones" and that "the appeal of such lines is not that they have been written by a child but by a poet." knowledge of history and archeology found in these pages place them beyond the reach of any juvenile mind."Ĭrane was dubbed "The Brooklyn Bard" by the time she was 13 and became part of the Louis Untermeyer poetry circle during her late teens, with Untermeyer contributing an introduction to her 1936 volume Swear by the Night and Other Poems. They are beyond the powers of a girl of twelve. She was elected into the British Society of Authors, Playwrights, and Composers in 1925 and later became a professor of English at San Diego State University.Īfter the publication of her second volume of poetry, Lava Lane, poet Edwin Markham implied that the publications were probably a hoax, stating "It seems impossible to me that a girl so immature could have written these poems. Her poetry was first published in The New York Sun when she was only 9 years old, the paper unaware that she was a child. Roosevelt, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Carl Sandburg and Amy Lowell.Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (11 August 1913 – 22 October 1998) was a poet and novelist who became famous as a child prodigy after the publication of her first book of poetry, The Janitor's Boy, written at age 10 and published two years later. Among his correspondents were Franklin D. He also gave to the college his personal papers, including many manuscript letters from well-known literary and political figures of the early twentieth century. Upon his death, he bequeathed his personal library of 15,000 volumes to the Horrmann Library, Wagner College, on Staten Island. Markham died on March 7, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the first poet to receive the Academy Fellowship in 1936. His prose work, Children in Bondage (1914), was a landmark in the crusade against child labor. He also edited many anthologies of poetry. Markham published several collections of verse, among them The Ballad of the Gallows Bird (1960, Antioch Press), Eighty Poems at Eighty (1932), Gates of Paradise (1920), Lincoln and Other Poems (1901), and The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899). He began lecturing extensively, appearing at labor and radical gatherings as frequently as literary ones. Markham and his wife moved to New York shortly after, settling first in Brooklyn and then in Staten Island in 1901. That same year, Markham read " The Man with the Hoe," inspired by Millet's painting by that title, at a New Year's Eve party the poem, which protested the plight of the exploited laborer, was soon published and became an instant success. In 1898, after two failed marriages, he married Anna Catherine Murphy. Markham dropped the name Charles in about 1895 and became Edwin. His circle of friends in Oakland included Joaquin Miller, Donna Coolbrith, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Edmund Clarence Stedman, among many others. Markham was elected county superintendent of schools in 1879 and received the principalship of the Tompkins Observation School in Oakland in 1890. He completed the classical course in 1873 and went on to teach in El Dorado County. By the age of twelve, he was doing hard labor on the family farm.Ĭharles's mother vehemently opposed his interest in literature, but he nonetheless attended a rudimentary "college" at Vacaville, California, and managed to earn enough money through teaching to continue his studies at Christian College in Santa Rosa, California. In 1856, Charles moved with his mother and only sister to a ranch in Lagoon Valley, northeast of San Francisco.
His parents were divorced shortly after his birth, and Charles, as he was known for many years, saw almost nothing of his father. Charles Edwin Anson Markham was born on April 23, 1852, in Oregon City, Oregon, the youngest of six children.
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