Background
Mayhall grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where she was born on May 10, 1918.
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Jane Mayhall
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She attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she majored in music, having entered as a talented composer, pianist and singer.
Career
Her poems and other works had been published over the years in many publications, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. There she met fellow student Leslie George Katz. The two married in the 1940s and moved to New York City.
Her husband founded Eakins Press, which published art and literature, including some of Mayhall"s works.
Her debut novel Cousin to Human was published by Harcourt, Brace in 1960, telling the story of a girl growing up in Louisville. Florence Crowther"s review of the book in The New York Times describes how "less adept" authors would have been challenged to make the story believable, but that "Mission Mayhall is a wise author - she has Lacy keep her mouth shut and yet be understood." Her husband"s Eakins Press published her 1966 book of plays, poems and stories Ready for the Ha Ha & Other Satires, and the two-volume collection of poetry Givers and Takers that was published in 1968 and 1973.
Her collection of poems Sleeping Late on Judgment Day was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2004 when she was 85 years old. Mayhall died at age 90 on March 17, 2009 in her Manhattan home.
She had no immediate survivors.
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