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Marianne Moore (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Marianne Craig Moore was born in her maternal grandfather's home in Kirkwood, near St. Louis, Missouri, on November 15, 1887. She never knew her father, an engineer and inventor, because earlier that same year he suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an institution. Her mother, Mary Warner Moore, and brother John then moved to Kirkwood to live with Marianne's grandfather, the Reverend John Riddle Warner, a Presbyterian minister.
Moore spent her first seven years in an affectionate, close-knit environment. Her grandfather and her mother...
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