Ruth Lechlitner has been writing poetry for more than half a century. Her collections span the period from 1937 to 1973, but one of her first poems appeared in The Poets of the Future: A College Anthology for 1920-1921 (1921), and one of her latest was published in the Southwest Review in 1983. Appearing in such diverse periodicals as Ladies Home Journal and Poetry, her poems have reached a wide audience.

Lechlitner has let her poetry speak for her almost exclusively, and little is known of her personal life. Born in Elkhart, Indiana (near South Bend), to Jessie Wier James and Martin Lechlitner, Ruth Naomi Lechlitner received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1923 and an M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1926. She married Paul F. Corey and lived in Cold-Spring-on-Hudson, New York, in the 1930s before settling in Sonoma, California, in the late 1940s. Although she has...