Josephine preston peabody biography definition

American poet

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, – December 4, ) was an American poet and dramatist.

Biography

Peabody was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.

She also participated in George Pierce Baker's Harvard Workshop ^[1][2]

In , she was introduced to fifteen-year-old Khalil Gibran by Fred Holland Day, the American photographer and co-founder of the Copeland-Day publishing house, at an art exhibition. Shortly thereafter Gibran returned to Lebanon but the pair continued to correspond.^[3]

From to , she was instructor in English at Wellesley.

The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in ; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City, in Composer Grace Chadbourne used Peabody's text for her songs "Green Singing Book" and "Window Pane Songs".^[4][5]

On June 21, she married