Born at Catskill-on-Hudson, New York, 1910, daughter of Grace Hazard Conkling ([q. v.]). She began to talk her poems to her mother at the age of four. Her mother took them down without change, merely arranging the line divisions. Her earliest expression was in the form of a chant to an imaginary companion to whom she gave the name “Mary Cobweb” (cf. Poetry, 14 [’19]: 344).
Hilda Conkling’s name is included in this list, not because her poems are remarkable for a child, but because they show actual achievement and the highest quality of imagination.
Her work is to be found in Poetry, 8 (’16): 191; and 10 (’17): 197, and one volume has been published, Poems by a Little Girl, 1920 (with introduction by Amy Lowell).
Studies and Reviews
- Bookm. 51 (’20):314.
- Cur. Op. 68 (’20): 852.
- Dial, 69 (’20): 186.
- Lit. Digest, 65 (’20): June 5, p. 50.
- Poetry, 16 (’20): 222.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1920.
James Brendan Connolly (Massachusetts)—short-story writer. Writes realistic sea stories. For bibliography, see Who’s Who in America.
George Cram Cook (Iowa, 1873)—dramatist.
Director of the Provincetown Players since 1915. With Susan Glaspell ([q. v.]) wrote Suppressed Desires (1915) and Tickless Time (1920).
- Other plays are: The Athenian Women. 1917.
- Spring. 1921. (Cf. Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, Feb. 11, 1922, p. 419.)