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Millicent Travis Lane (known as M. Travis Lane; born 23 September 1934) is an American-born Canadian poet based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. ==Early and personal life== Millicent Travis was born into a military family in San Antonio, Texas on 23 September 1934. Her father, United States Army Colonel William Livingston Travis, was a 1933 West Point graduate who won the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=110811 )〕 Her mother was Elsie Ward Travis. Millicent had one sister. During her childhood the family moved often because of her father's military postings.〔 Her parents introduced her to poetry at an early age and she began writing poems as a young child. She attended Vassar College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1956.〔 In 1957 she was awarded a Master of Arts degree by Cornell University for her thesis ''The Fences of Robert Frost: The Changes in his Ways of Approaching Philosophical Problems''. She earned a PhD from Cornell in 1967 for her dissertation on Robert Frost's poetic style entitled ''Agnosticism as Technique''.〔 She and her husband Lauriat Lane Jr. moved to Fredericton in 1960 with their one-year-old daughter. Their second child, a son, was born in Canada.〔 In 1973 M. Travis Lane, her husband and her two children became Canadian citizens. Lauriat Lane Jr. taught English at the University of New Brunswick until 1990 and was named an emeritus professor on his retirement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unb.ca/faculty/emeritus/honorees/fredericton/htol/lane.html )〕 He died in 2005. Since 1967 M. Travis Lane has been an honorary research associate in the English department of the University of New Brunswick. She has taught courses in contemporary American poetry and West Indian writing, as well as English survey courses, and has been an external reader for several theses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/departments/english/people/travislane.html )〕 She has also been a prolific and respected reviewer for periodicals, particularly ''The Fiddlehead''.〔 She belongs to the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and is a Raging Granny.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M. Travis Lane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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