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A Short Biography of Phyllis McGinley

Author Name:

Phyllis McGinley

Born As:

Phyllis McGinley

Other Names:

Phyllis McGinley

Born:

21 Mar 1905

Died:

22 Feb 1978




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Poet and essayist                          
Selected Works:

Collected poems:

On the Contrary - 1934
One More Manhattan - 1937
Husbands Are Difficult - 1941
Stones from Glass Houses - 1946
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year - 1958
Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades - 1960, winning a Pulitzer prize
Sugar and Spice - 1960
A Wreath of Christmas Legends - 1967
Fourteenth Birthday - date unknown

Collected essays:

Province of the Heart - 1959
Sixpence in Her Shoe - 1964
Wonderful Time - 1966
Saint Watching - 1969

Children's books:

The Horse That Lived Upstairs - 1944
All Around the Town - 1948
Blunderbus - 1951
The Make-Believe Twins - 1953
The Year without a Santa Claus - 1957
Boys Are Awful - 1962
How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas - 1963.                          
                          
Pulitzer prize in 1960 for Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades.