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Fannie Stearns Davis
1884–1958
An early 20th-century American poet, she published finely observed, lyrical work that appeared in major magazines and anthologies. Her writing helped earn her a place in collections of modern verse and keeps her name alive with poetry readers today.
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Crack o' dawn
by Fannie Stearns Davis
About the author
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 6, 1884, she studied at Smith College, graduating in 1904. She later taught English at Kemper Hall in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and was also known as Fannie Stearns Davis Gifford after her marriage.
She is chiefly remembered as a poet. Sources available online credit her with the poetry books Myself and I (1913) and Crack O' Dawn (1915), and her poems were published widely enough to be included in anthologies of modern verse and to appear in venues such as The Atlantic.
She died in 1958. While detailed biographical material is limited in the sources I could confirm, the record that does survive suggests a writer whose work was admired for its delicacy, feeling, and quiet craftsmanship.