Marianne Moore (1887–1972) was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, and educated at Bryn Mawr College. Her Collected Poems (Macmillan, 1951) won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and she received the Bollingen Prize in 1953. Her Complete Poems appeared from Viking in 1967. She worked as a librarian and edited the literary magazine The Dial from 1925 to 1929. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, she became a celebrated public figure known for her distinctive dress and her love of baseball.
