McGinley, Phyllis

McGinley, Phyllis

▪ American poet
born March 21, 1905, Ontario, Ore., U.S.
died Feb. 22, 1978, New York, N.Y.

      American poet and author of books for juveniles, best known for her light verse celebrating suburban home life.

      McGinley attended the University of Southern California and the University of Utah. She then taught school for several years. A writer of verses since childhood, she began submitting them to newspapers and magazines. Franklin P. Adams (Adams, Franklin Pierce) printed a few in his column, “The Conning Tower,” in the New York Herald Tribune, and gradually McGinley's poetry began to appear also in The New Yorker and other periodicals.After a stint as an advertising copywriter and another as poetry editor for Town and Country magazine, McGinley devoted herself to writing. Her first book of poems, On the Contrary (1934), was well received. It was followed by One More Manhattan (1937), Husbands Are Difficult (1941), Stones from Glass Houses (1946), and Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (1958), among others. Although her poetry is often dismissed as light verse, it is serious as well as witty. She upheld in her poetry the values she cherished, writing with delight of the suburban landscape. She wrote in masterfully controlled conventional form, and her great technical expertise gave her work the appearance of effortlessness. In 1961 her Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades (1960) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.McGinley also wrote a number of books for children, including The Horse That Lived Upstairs (1944), All Around the Town (1948), Blunderbus (1951), The Make-Believe Twins (1953), Boys Are Awful (1962), and How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas (1963). Her essays, first published in such magazines as Ladies' Home Journal and Reader's Digest, are collected in Province of the Heart (1959); Sixpence in Her Shoe (1964), a popular series of autobiographical essays about being a wife in the suburbs; Wonderful Time (1966); and Saint Watching (1969). Her later collections of poems include Sugar and Spice (1960) and A Wreath of Christmas Legends (1967).

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