About Elizabeth Searle Lamb
Lived 1917 – 2015 (aged 98). Elizabeth Searle Lamb was an American poet, writer and haiku poet.
Elizabeth Searle Lamb (January 22, 1917 – February 16, 2005) was an American poet. She is known for writing English-language haiku. Raymond Roseliep called her the "First Lady of American haiku". Her work has been translated into other languages.
Biography She was born in Topeka, Kansas. They lived in several places in South America due to her husband's job as a forester. They moved to New York in 1961.
She served as president of the Haiku Society of America in 1971.
She died in 2015 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Honors and awards She was the honorary curator for the American Haiku Archives in the California State Library in Sacramento from 1996 to 1998.
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American haiku poet (1917-2015)
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Elizabeth Searle Lamb was born on 22 January 1917 in Topeka.
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Elizabeth Searle Lamb died on 16 February 2015 in Santa Fe.
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Elizabeth Searle Lamb was a poet, writer and haiku poet.
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Elizabeth Searle Lamb was American.
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