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Emily Holmes Coleman

Born

in Oakland, California, The United States

January 22, 1899

Died

June 13, 1974

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Emily Holmes Coleman, American poet and novelist, was born in 1899, in Oakland, California. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1920 and soon thereafter left for Paris where she worked as the society editor for the Paris Tribune. As an expatriate writer, Coleman continued to live in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.

Although Emily Coleman's papers reveal her to be a prolific writer, her only published works were her contributions to little magazines, such as transition and New Review, and her autobiographical novel, The Shutter of Snow (1930). She kept a close friendship with Djuna Barnes, Edwin Muir, Peggy Guggenheim, Beatrix Wright, and Antonia White.

From 1944 until her death the focus of Coleman's attention and activities was her rel ...more

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Average rating: 3.44 · 566 ratings · 106 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Shutter of Snow 3.43 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1930 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quel tipo di donna by Leonora Carrington, Dorothy Edwards, Kay Boyle 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 by Elizabeth Podnieks (Editor), Emily Holmes Coleman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Vantail de neige (Pavillons poche) by Emily Holmes Coleman, Agnès Desarthe (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Vantail de neige by Emily Holmes Coleman, Agnès Desarthe (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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