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Name	Henderson, Alice Corbin
Born	April 16, 1881
Birthplace	St. Louis, Missouri
Places of residence	After her mother died, lived with relatives in Chicago from 1884 - 1891, then with her father in Kansas 1891 - 1894. 701 Park Place, Lake Bluff, 1905-1916. Moved to New Mexico because of health concerns in 1916.
Nationality	American
Education	University of Chicago 1899-1902 Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans 1902
Occupation	Poet and Editor of Poetry Magazine Reviewed books for "The Times-Picayune" of New Orleans in 1902. Editor and writer for Chicago Tribune and Saturday Evening Post, 1903 - 1912. Associate editor of Poetry magazine 1912 - 1922. - Published early works of Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandberg, among others. - Wrote over 175 poems, reviews and essays in Poetry. In New Mexico, organized groups of writers and poets and became involved with preserving native American culture, becoming curator of the House of Navajo Religion. Was editor in chief of the New Mexico Works Progress Administration Federal Writers Project.
Role	Writer
Publications	The Linnet Songs (1898) The Spinning Woman of the Sky (1912) Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico (1920) The Sun Turns West (1933) Adams Dream (1908) Anderson's Best Fairy Tales (1908)
Spouse	William Penhallow Henderson - 1905
Notes	Corbin and Henderson were at the hub of the Lake Bluff Artist's Colony in the 1910s.

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16. William P. Henderson, An Artist of Santa Fe - Breeskin, Adelyn D.

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