Ruth Stone
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Ruth Stone (June 8, 1915 – November 19, 2011) was an American poet, author, and teacher.
Life and poetry
Stone was born in Roanoke, Virginia and lived there until age 6, when her family moved back to her parents' hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. She went to college at the University of Illinois. Her first marriage was to John Clapp in 1935, and they had one daughter. Her second marriage was to professor and poet Walter Stone, in 1944, with whom she had two daughters. Walter Stone, who served in World War II, received a PhD from Harvard, and taught at University of Illinois, and then at Vassar College. Walter Stone committed suicide in 1959; this tragedy shaped the path of Ruth Stone's life, as she sought ways to support herself and her daughters by teaching poetry at universities across the United States.
Her work is distinguished by its tendency to draw imagery and language from the natural sciences.
Stone died at her home in Goshen, Vermont, on November 19, 2011.
Career
Stone's poetry appeared in several periodicals, and she was the author of thirteen books of poetry.
Stone began working as a Binghamton University English and Creative Writing professor in 1990 and left the field at 85 years old.
Editors were aware of Stone's work early on. Stone received the Kenyon Review Fellowship in Poetry while her husband was teaching at Vassar College.