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Margarette Ball Dickson

Biographical Notes

Date of birth: June 4, 1884, Little Rock, Iowa
Date of death: July 21, 1963, Staples, Minnesota

Margarette Ball Dickson Haining Jensen. Educator and writer. B.A., Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa), 1925; M.A., University of South Dakota, 1927; graduate studies, University of Iowa, 1926-28; University of Chicago, 1929-30. Rural school teacher among Indians in Sisseton, South Dakota. Creative writing instructor, California State Teachers College, Chico, 1927; English Professor, Valparaiso University, 1927-31. Established Dickson-Haining School of Creative Writing, Staples, Minnesota, 1931; cofounder, Minnesota Poets, 1934; cofounder, St. Paul Seminar, 1935. Poetry editor, Minnesota Journal of Education, 1937. President, League of Minnesota Poets, 1935-38; regional director, Midwest Federation of Chaparral Poets, 1939-51, and international director, 1951; organizer, East Coast, Canadian, and European Chaparral Poets Groups. Past state president, South Dakota Music Clubs; past poetry editor, The Farmer, Sunshine Magazine, and others; past national vice-president, National Federation Poetry Club. Minnesota Poet Laureate, 1934. Awarded American Legion prize, 1921; Rockefeller Center Gold Medal, 1938. Member of the editorial board of various magazines; member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Order of the Eastern Star.

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Additional Resources

Sources used to prepare this author entry

The following bibliography may include links to Web sites that are no longer operable or have changed location. The sources are shown as they existed in the fall of 1999 when the entries were compiled.
  • Howes, Durward. ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif: Richard Blank Publishing Co., 1935.
  • Howes, Durward, ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif: American Publications Inc., 1939.
  • "Margarette Ball Dickson Papers, 1924-1958." St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society.
  • Minneapolis Star, 24 July 1963, p. 3B.
  • Schilplin, Maude C., ed. Minnesota Verse. St. Cloud, Minn.: Times Publishing Co., 1934.
  • Schilplin, Maude C., ed. Minnesota Verse. St. Cloud, Minn.: Times Publishing Co., 1938.
  • Staples World, 25 July 1963, p. 1.
  • Stutheit, Esther, ed. Who's Who in Minnesota. Minneapolis: Minnesota Editorial Association, 1941.
  • White, Bernice, ed. Who's Who in Minnesota. Seattle: Hugh L. White, 1958.
  • White, Bernice, ed. Who's Who in Minnesota. Seattle: Hugh L. White, 1964.
  • Who Was Who Among North American Authors. 1921-1939. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1976.
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