Helen Bevington

Helen Bevington was born in 1906 in New York. She passed away in 2001 (where? Anyone? I can’t find this info.)

She attended the University of Chicago and got a degree in philosophy. She went on to do a thesis on Thoreau and earn a master’s degree from Columbia.

In 1928 she married Merle Bevington. Both Bevingtons taught English at Duke University in the 1940s. Her husband passed away in 1964.

Aside from her books her work appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The American Scholar.

Bevington was a poet, a diarist and an essayist. Winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award (1956), the North Carolina Award for Literature (1973), and the Mayflower Cup (1974).

Books by Helen Bevington

• Dr. Johnson’s Waterfall, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
• Nineteen Million Elephants, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
• A Change of Sky, and Other Poems. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
• When Found, Make a Verse of. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
• Charley Smith’s Girl: A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.
• A Book & A Love Affair. NewYork: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
• The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
• Beautiful Lofty People. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
• Along Came the Witch: A Journal in the 1960s. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
• The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983.
• The World and the Bo Tree. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991.
• The Third and Only Way: Reflections on Staying Alive. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.