McGinley, Phyllis

McGinley, Phyllis (1905 - 1978)

Index to poems
  1. View from a Suburban Window
Biography
  • Hennessy, Michael. "Phyllis McGinley". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Peter Quartermain, University of British Columbia. The Gale Group, 1986. pp. 285-290.
  • McGinley, Phyllis. On the Contrary. New York: Doubleday, 1934. PS3525 .A23293 O6 1934 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --. One More Manhattan. New York: Harcourt, 1937. PS3525 .A23293 O7 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --. A Pocketful of Wry, Duell. New York: Sloan & Pearce, 1940, revised edition, Grosset & Dunlap, 1959. PS3525 .A23293 P6 1959 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Husbands Are Difficult; or, The Book of Oliver Ames. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941.
  • --.Stones from a Glass House. New York: Viking, 1946.
  • --.A Short Walk from the Station. New York: Viking, 1952. PS3525 .A23293 S5 1957 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Love Letters. New York: Viking, 1954. PS3525 .A2329 L6 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
  • --. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. New York: Viking, 1958. PS3525 .A2329 M4 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
  • --. Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades with Seventy New Poems. Foreword by W. H. Auden. New York: Viking, 1960. PS3525 .A23293 T5 1960 Robarts Library.
  • --. A Wreath of Christmas Legends. New York: Macmillan, 1967 PS3535 .A23293 W7 1968. University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Christmas Con and Pro. New York: Hart Press, 1971.
  • --.Confessions of a Reluctant Optimist. Edited by Barbara Wells Price, illustrated by Peter Lippmann, Hallmark Editions. Kansas City, MO: 1973.
  • Hennessy, Michael. "Phyllis McGinley". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Peter Quartermain, University of British Columbia. The Gale Group, 1986. pp. 285-290.
Given Name
Phyllis
Family Name
McGinley
Birth Date
March 21, 1905
Death Date
February 22, 1978
Nationality
American
Family Relations
father : Daniel McGinley
mother : Julia McGinley
husband : Charles L. Hayden (from 25 Jun. 1937)
daughter : Julia Elizabeth Hayden
daughter : Phyllis Louise Hayden
Education
Religion
Honours
Occupations
  • Advertising Copywriter



  • Teacher



  • Poetry Editor



Literary Period
Modern
Literary Movement
Unknown
Illness
First RPO Edition
2009