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Virginia Hamilton Adair (February 28, 1913, New York City - September 16 2004, Claremont, California|Claremont, California) was an United States|American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of "Ants on the Melon". Mary Virginia Hamilton was born in the Bronx and raised in Montclair, New Jersey. She disliked the name "Mary" and dropped it as a young adult. Exposed to poetry as a young child through her father, she began writing her own poems at age 6. She received a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College and a master's from Radcliffe College|Radcliffe. She was a professor at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona for many years. Though she published work during the 1930s and 1940s in The Saturday Review, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, Adair did not publish again for almost 50 years. There were several factors which preoccupied her over those decades, and took her attention away from publishing her own work. These included her 1936 marriage to prominent historian Douglass Adair, motherhood, and an academic career. She was also soured on publishing her work due to her distaste for the gamesmanship of the publishing world. Adair's return to publishing came in the 1990s, following her husband's 1968 suicide, her retirement from teaching, and her loss of sight from glaucoma. Adair's friend and fellow poet Robert Mezey forwarded some of her work to Alice Quinn, The New Yorker's poetry editor. The New Yorker published the work in 1995, and the subsequently published "Ants on the Melon". Ms. Adair's work then appeared regularly in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. US-writer-stub Category:1913 births|Adair, Virginia Hamilton Category:2004 deaths|Adair, Virginia Hamilton Category:American writers|Adair, Virginia Hamilton Category:American poets|Adair, Virginia Hamilton Category:Women writers|Adair, Virginia Hamilton This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Virginia Hamilton Adair".
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