Books By Laura (Riding) Jackson, John Nolan - Author

Laura (Riding) Jackson's first published poems appeared in 1923 in magazines such as The Fugitive. In 1925 she moved to England, and during thirteen years abroad wrote some twenty books of poetry, criticism, and fiction. In 1941 she renounced poetry, married Schuyler B. Jackson, and collaborated with him on what would become Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words. The Telling, her spiritual testament, was published in 1972. In 1991, she was awarded the Bollingen Prize for her lifetime contribution to poetry. She died on September 2, 1991.

John Nolan is a member of the Laura (Riding) Jackson Board of Literary Management, and co-editor, with Alan J. Clark, of Laura (Riding) Jackson's Under the Mind's Watch (2004). He lives in London, England.