Moore, Marianne (Craig) (1887–1972)

US modernist poet. She is known for her mildly eccentric public persona, a devotion to baseball, and her impeccably intelligent poetry, celebrated for its wit and observation of detail. Moore edited the literary magazine The Dial 1925–29, and published several volumes of verse, including Observations (1924), What are Years (1941), A Marianne Moore Reader (1961), and The Complete Poems (1967). Other works included essays and translations.

Born in Kirkwood, Missouri, Moore studied at Bryn Mawr (BA 1909) and Carlisle Commercial College, Pennsylvania in 1910, and worked at the US Indian School, Pennsylvania 1911–15. She settled in New York, New York, (1919), living first in Greenwich Village and then in Brooklyn, and worked as a librarian, editor, and lecturer.