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Oct 08, 1910 Greene County, New York, United States Died on 26 Jun 1986 (aged 75)
American poet
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About Hilda Conkling
- Hilda Conkling (1910–1986) was an American poet.
- She was the daughter of Grace Hazard Conkling, a poet in her own right and Assistant Professor of English at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
- Hilda was born in New York state.
- Her father died when she was four years old, and she had one sister, Elsa, two years her senior. Hilda is notable for having composed most of her poetry as a young child, between the ages of four and ten years old.
- She never wrote them down herself; instead, they came out in conversation with her mother, who would write down Hilda's words either in the moment, or from memory later.
- If the latter, she would read the lines back to Hilda, who would then correct any deviation from her original words.
- As Hilda grew up, her mother stopped recording the poems, and Hilda is not known to have written any herself as an adult.
