Leonie Adams

ABOUT LEONIE ADAMS

American poet, author, editor, and seventh United States Poet Laureate. Her poetry collections include This Measure, Midsummer, and the Bollingen Prize-winning Poems: A Selection.

Her first poetry collection, Those Not Elect, was published when she was a teenager.

She once shared tea with Gertrude Stein in Paris.

She married William Troy, a professor and fellow writer, in 1933.

She was the friend and Barnard College roommate of American anthropologist Margaret Mead .