Cale Young Rice (Kentucky, 1872)—poet, dramatist.
- Collected Plays and Poems. 1915.
- For later volumes, cf. Who’s Who in America.
Born at Dublin, Ireland, but brought up in Sydney, Australia. As a child, lived also in New Zealand, but studied art in Australia. In 1907 she came to the United States and supported herself for three years by writing fiction for the popular magazines. But finding that this work was going to kill her creative ability, she earned her living in a variety of other ways—as organizer, advertisement writer, illustrator, artist’s model, factory worker, etc.—while she wrote poems. Her reputation was made by the publication of The Ghetto in 1918.
Bibliography
- The Ghetto and Other Poems. 1918.
- Sun-up and Other Poems. 1920.
- Also in: Others, 1919.
Studies and Reviews
- Untermeyer.
- Dial, 66 (’18): 83. (Aiken.)
- New Repub. 17 (’18): 76. (Hackett.)
- Poetry, 13 (’19): 335; 17 (’21): 332.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1918, 1920.
Born at Greenfield, Indiana, 1853, of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Educated in the public schools, but received many higher honorary degrees. Died in 1916.