Bryna Ivens Untermeyer

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Bryna Ivens Untermeyer (August 27, 1909 - March 1985) was an American writer and editor. She was an editor for She and Seventeen , from which she also edited story collections. [1] She also edited collections of children stories with her husband poet Louis Untermeyer and wrote a book about one of their cats from its perspective, Memoir for Mrs. Sullavan. [2]

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Untermeyer was fiction and feature editor at Seventeen until 1948. [3] [4]

She is credited as a writer for the 1941 film Murder on Lenox Avenue . Untermeyer wrote Memoir for Mrs. Sullivan about her family's cat. [5] She edited Sorry Dear, an illustrated collection of sayings from famous authors.

Personal life

Bryna Ivens married poet Louis Untermeyer in 1948, [6] though the legal status of the marriage was contested. Untermeyer was 62 while Ivens was 39. [7] They edited collections of classic children's tales together. Jan Struther inscribed a poem about a cat to the couple. [8]

Selected works

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