Aline Murray Kilmer

Poet and children's author

Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).

The couple attended Rutgers College Preparatory School and married shortly after his graduation from Columbia University in 1908.In their short marriage, lasting 10 years, her husband had achieved fame as a poet, literary critic and among Catholic circles as America's most prominent Catholic writer.

After his death in World War I, she began publishing her own poetry and a few children's books.Today, her work is largely forgotten.

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