Background
Evans, Abbie Huston was born on December 20, 1881 in 6e, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Lewis Darenydd and Hester Annette (Huston) Evans.
Evans, Abbie Huston was born on December 20, 1881 in 6e, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Lewis Darenydd and Hester Annette (Huston) Evans.
He studied two years at Western Reserve University, and graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary. Evans graduated from Radcliffe College with a Bachelor of Arts (1913, Phi Beta Kappa) and Master of Arts (1918). She was six years older than the rest of her class, where she studied with Odell Shepard.
He labored as a coal miner, until he was accepted for college. She went to France during World War I, then came home to work as a social worker to coal miners in Colorado and Pittsburgh. She later taught at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia from 1923 to 1953.
She lived at 414 Queen Street in Philadelphia.
Then she taught at College Settlement Farm-Camp in Horsham, Pennsylvania from 1953 to 1957. She summer vacationed at the Maine coast.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay was a friend from Sunday school, and wrote an introduction to Outcrop. Louise Bogan accepted Abbie’s poems for The New Yorker.
She received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College, in 1961,
Her poems appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry.
She recorded for the Library of Congress in 1964. Her letters with Odell Shepard are at the University of Delaware. Barbara Lachman was working on a biography.
Member Advisory Board Contemporary Poetry, since 1940. Member jury Shelley Memorial award, 1940. Member Americans for Democratic Action, Civil Liberties Union, Phi Beta Kappa.