Everything about Virginia Hamilton Adair totally explained
Virginia Hamilton Adair (
February 28,
1913,
New York City -
September 16 2004,
Claremont,
California) was an
American poet who became famous later in life with the
1996 publication of "Ants on the Melon".
Background
Mary Virginia Hamilton was born in the
Bronx and raised in
Montclair, New Jersey. She disliked the name "Mary" and dropped it as a young adult. Exposed to poetry as a young child through her father, she began writing her own poems at age 6.
She received her B.A. in English from
Mount Holyoke College in 1933 and her M.A. from
Radcliffe College. She was a professor at
California State Polytechnic University in
Pomona, California for many years.
Career
Though she published work during the 1930s and 1940s in
Saturday Review,
The Atlantic, and
The New Republic, Adair didn't publish again for almost 50 years. There were several factors which preoccupied her over those decades, and took her attention away from publishing her own work. These included her 1936 marriage to prominent historian
Douglass Adair, motherhood, and an academic career. She was also soured on publishing her work due to her distaste for the gamesmanship of the publishing world.
Adair's return to publishing came in the 1990s, following her husband's 1968 suicide, her retirement from teaching, and her loss of sight from
glaucoma. Adair's friend and fellow poet
Robert Mezey forwarded some of her work to
Alice Quinn,
The New Yorker's poetry editor.
The New Yorker published the work in 1995, and the subsequently published "Ants on the Melon". Ms. Adair's work then appeared regularly in
The New Yorker and
The New York Review of Books.
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