Elinor Wylie

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elinor Morton Wylie née Hoyt was an American poet and novelist, who first became popular before World War II. Wylie was born in Somerville, New Jersey. Her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania. She was raised in this socially prominent family in Washington, D.C. Her aunt was Helen Hoyt, a minor poet. She graduated in 1912 from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. She eloped with Harvard graduate Philip Simmons Hichborn son of a rear-admiral Philip Hichborn, they were married on December 13, 1906. She later eloped with Horace Wylie while still married to Hichborn. She married three times and had a son Philip Simmons Hichborn, Jr. by her first husband. Her last marriage was to William Rose Benét who was part of her literary circle and brother of Stephen Vincent Benet