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Fannie Stearns Davis
1884–1958
An American poet of the early 1900s, she wrote with a quiet, reflective voice that found its way into magazines, anthologies, and a small but lasting body of books. Her work moves easily between inward lyric feeling and vivid natural detail.
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Crack o' dawn
by Fannie Stearns Davis
About the author
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 6, 1884, Fannie Stearns Davis later became known as Fannie Stearns Davis Gifford. She graduated from Smith College in 1904 and is associated with a generation of American poets whose work appeared in literary magazines and collected verse of the period.
Her published books include Myself and I (1913), Crack o' Dawn (1915), and The Ancient Beautiful Things (1923). She also published poems in major magazines of her time, including The Atlantic and The Century Magazine, and her work was selected for several poetry anthologies.
She married Augustus McKinstry Gifford in 1914 and spent much of her later life in Massachusetts. Fannie Stearns Davis Gifford died on February 24, 1958. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources checked, so no profile image is included here.