About Helen Bevington
Lived 1906 – 2001 (aged 94–95). Helen Bevington was an American diarist, poet, essayist, writer and professor.
Helen E. Bevington (; 1906 – March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose writer, and educator. Her most noted book, Charley Smith's Girl, was "banned by the library in the small town of Worcester, N.Y., where she grew up, because the book tells of her minister father's having been divorced by her mother for affairs that he was carrying on with younger female parishioners." in Afton, New York, Bevington was reared in Worcester, New York, where her father was a Methodist minister. She attended the University of Chicago and earned a degree in philosophy. Charley Smith's Girl (1965) was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.
Helen Bevington died on March 16, 2001, in Chicago.
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American poet (1906–2001)
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Helen Bevington was born in 1906 in Afton.
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Helen Bevington died in 2001 in Chicago.
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Helen Bevington was a diarist, poet, essayist, writer and professor.
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