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Janet Lewis

Born: 08/17/1899 Chicago, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 12/01/1998
Parents: Edwin Herbert Lewis and Elizabeth Lewis
Spouse: Yvor Winters
Children: Joanna Thompson and Daniel Lewis

Writings

Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
The Swans : an Opera in three acts - Collaborated with Alva Henderson, a composer for whom she wrote three libretti and song texts after the story by the Brothers Grimm	Fiction	Adult	Santa Barbara, CA : John Daniel Publishers	1986
The Wife of Martin Guerre	Historical Fiction	Adult	Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press	1967
Keiko's Bubble	Fiction	Children	Garden City, NY : Doubleday	1961
The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron - Louis XIV, 1643-1715	Historical Fiction	Adult	Denver, Co : A. Swallow	1959
Poems, 1924-1944	Poetry	Adult	Denver, Co : A. Swallow	1950
Trial of Soren Qvist - Biographical Fiction of Denmark's Christian IV and Soren Qvist	Fiction, Biography	Adult	Garden City, NY : Doubleday	1947
Good-bye, Son, and Other Stories - Short Stories	Fiction	Adult	Garden City, NY : Doubleday	1946
The Invasion: A Narrative of Events Concerning the Johnston Family of St. Mary's - Based on family stories she heard as a child. The Invasion displays well-researched historical accuracy, an innate understanding of and feeling for Native American culture enhanced by the author's fluency in the Ojibway language.	Fiction, Michigan History	Adult	Harcourt	1932
Gyroscope - Founded with her husband an influential literary journal that served as center for a group led by Yvor Winters	Poetry	Adult		1929-1931
The Friendly Adventures of Ollie Ostrich	Fiction, Michigan	Children	Garden City, NY : Doubleday	1923
The Indians in the Woods : Poems of Janet Lewis	Poetry	Adult	Bonn, Germany : M. Wheeler	1922

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Lewis was a poet and concentrated on imagery, rhymes, and lyricism to achieve her goal. "I became a writer in the country, during summer vacations on Neebish and St. Joseph's Islands."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Awards:

Name	Date
University of Chicago Alumni Association Award for Professional Achievement	1982
Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing for research in Paris	1950-1951
Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry	1948
Friends of American Writers Award for The Invasion	1932

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name	Date
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities	1988
Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 41	1987
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, edition(s) 1987	1987
Contemporary Authors - Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 9-12R Contemporary Authors - Obituary, volume(s) 172 (1990) Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 29, 63 Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, volume(s) 1	1974-1998
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources--American Literary Studies: Janet Lewis Papers

Memberships:

Name	Date
The Poetry Club of the University of Chicago

Education:

Degree	Institution	Location	Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	1920
Associate of Arts (A. A.)	Lewis Institute	Chicago, IL	1918

Career:

Position	Organization	Location	Date
Taught creative writing and literature courses	University of California	Berkeley	1978
Taught creative writing and literature courses	Stanford University	Stanford	1966-1970
Teacher	Lewis Institute	Chicago, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Proofreader	Redbook Magazine	Chicago, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent

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