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Margery Bodine Latimer (February 6, 1899 – August 16, 1932), born in Portage, Wisconsin,〔 was an American writer, feminist theorist, and social activist. She moved to New York City before finishing college and became involved in its cultural life. Latimer published two highly acclaimed novels, ''We Are Incredible'' (1928) and ''This is My Body'' (1930), and two collections of short stories, ''Nellie Bloom and Other Stories'' (1929), and ''Guardian Angel and Other Stories'' (1932). (This was reprinted in a new edition in 1984.) Her formally experimental fiction was greatly influenced by the modernism of the 1920s. Reviewers of the period compared her to Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence. Her work reflects her feminist, socialist, and anti-racist ideals. ==Personal background== Latimer was the younger daughter of Clark Watt Latimer and Laura Augusta née Bodine. Her Yankee ancestry included New England pioneers Anne Bradstreet and John Cotton. Latimer published a short story in a local paper in 1917. This caught the attention of her Portage neighbor Zona Gale, a well-known writer, journalist, and suffragist. Gale became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. She became Latimer's mentor and confidante.〔 Latimer attended Wooster College, but withdrew quickly, then attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She withdrew again and moved to New York City, where she started a playwriting course at Columbia University. Gale established a Zona Gale scholarship, tailor-made for Latimer, its first recipient. The younger woman returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1922. She worked on the campus literary magazine as editor and contributor, and became part of a circle of writers there. She withdrew again in 1923 and returned to New York.〔 Latimer maintained an intimate correspondence with her mentor until about the time of Gale's marriage in 1928. Admiring Gale greatly, Latimer identified with her and felt betrayed when Gale married. She fictionalized aspects of their complex relationship in the short story "Possession" (''Nellie Bloom and Other Stories''), the novel ''We Are Incredible'', and the long title story in ''Guardian Angel and Other Stories,'' each time treating her mentor more harshly. While living in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Latimer became active in various social causes. She also reported on contemporary politics for ''The New Masses,'' a radical journal of the twenties. She lived with poet Kenneth Fearing, her romantic partner, and became friends with writers and artists of the period, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Walt Kuhn, Meridel Le Sueur, Carl Rakosi, and photographer Carl Van Vechten. 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「Margery Latimer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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