About Laura Riding
Laura Riding Jackson (born Laura Reichenthal on January 16, 1901 in New York and died on September 2, 1991) was an American poet, literary critic, novelist and essayist. Born Laura Reichenthal in New York City to a family of Jewish immigrants from Austria, she studied at Cornell University between 1918 and 1921, where she began writing poetry. She began publishing in 1923 under the name Laura Riding Gottschalk. Through Allen Tate, she became associated with the Fugitives, a poets' circle at Vanderbilt University, and her poems were published in their magazine, The Fugitive. Her first marriage in 1920 to historian Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk ended in divorce in 1925. That same year, she was invited to England by Robert Graves and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. She remained in Europe for nearly fourteen years.Browse all poems and texts published on Laura Riding
