Harriet Monroe mentioned in Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City". In 2011, Monroe was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Monroe was the sister-in-law of Chicago architect John Wellborn Root, and wrote his biography. Harriet Monroe Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founding publisher and long-time editor of "Poetry" magazine, first published in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Max Michelson
Howard Baker (poet) After returning to the United States in 1931, he took a position teaching English at Berkeley. From 1937 to 1943 he taught English at Harvard. Besides collaborations with his wife, his writings include the poetry collections "Letter from the Country" (1941) and "Ode to the Sea" (1954), as well as a collection of essays on ancient Greek culture, "Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks" (1979). Howard Baker (poet) Howard Baker (born Howard Wilson Baker, Jr.) (April 5, 1905 – July 1990) was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Baker was born in Philadelphia. He did graduate work