Lindley Williams Hubbell

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Lindley Williams Hubbell (June 3, 1901 - October 2, 1994) was an American poet and translator.

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Hubbell was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to an old Puritan family, and showed interest in literature from an early age. He attended Hartford High School for two years and received lessons from private tutors, but didn't receive any collegiate education. [1] In 1926 he began working as a reference librarian at the New York Public Library, and one year later was awarded the Yale Younger Poets award. [2] Yale University Press published his first book of poetry, Dark Pavilion, and his work began to appear in magazines such as Poetry . He was an early champion of Gertrude Stein, and the two of them maintained a lengthy friendship, the correspondence of which is held at Yale University. [3] In 1946 he left his position at the NYPL to head the literature department at the Randall School in Hartford, a position he held until 1953, when he took a job cataloging books at Daitoku-ji, which in turn led to a teaching position at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He became a naturalized Japanese citizen that year and changed his name to Hayashi Shuseki. He retired from teaching in 1970 and remained in Japan for the rest of his life. [4] He died in Kyoto in 1994.

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References

  1. "Obituary: Lindley Williams Hubbell" . Independent.co.uk. 16 October 1994. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  2. "Lindley Williams Hubbell papers, 1933-2006". Columbia.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  3. "Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers". Yale.edu. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  4. "Lindley Williams Hubbell biography at The Ikuta Press". Ikutapress.com. Retrieved 28 April 2020.