Ina Coolbrith - age: 86

Ina Coolbrith

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Inaugural California Poet Laureate who wrote such poems as "The Mother's Grief" and "When the Grass Shall Cover Me." She published many of her poems in The Overland Monthly, a California-based literary journal.She worked as a librarian for the Oakland Library Association, which later became the Oakland Free Library.Mark Twain praised Coolbrith's literary work.

BEFORE FAME

She began writing when she was just eleven years old, and she published her first poem when she was fifteen.

PERSONAL LIFE

She was the niece of Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr. She left the Mormon community in her teens and moved to Los Angeles.

FUN FACTS

Poet Ina Coolbrith were born on Wednesday, birthstone is Aquamarine, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 62 days until Ina Coolbrith next birthday.

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