Marguerite Young

Marguerite Vivian Young (August 28, 1908 – November 17, 1995) was an American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism. Her work evinced an interest in social issues and environmentalism. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and raised by her maternal grandmother, who nurtured her love of literature. Young studied at Butler University in Indianapolis, receiving a BA in English and French. She then attended the University of Chicago, visiting Thornton Wilder's writing class and earning her MA in Epic and Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature. Her first book of poetry was published in 1937, while she was teaching high-school English in Indianapolis. In that same year, she visited the utopian commune of New Harmony, Indiana,...