Lewis, Janet

▪ 1999

      American writer and poet who produced short stories, children's books, such novels as The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941) and the libretto of the opera based on it (1956), and the librettos of four other operas in addition to hundreds of poems, her final collection of which, The Dear Past (1994), contained works covering most of the 20th century; with her husband, poet and critic Yvor Winters, she shared an interest in nature, a concern for Native Americans, and participation in a number of liberal causes (b. Aug. 17, 1899, Chicago, Ill.—d. Dec. 1, 1998, Los Altos, Calif.).

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